# Amputations at James Skinner Baking Company
> OSHA SIR `2019010656` · 1/18/2019 · PARIS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** James Skinner Baking Company
- **Location:** 2020 19th Street Northwest, PARIS, TEXAS, 75460
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a plastic-handled bristled brush to clean dough from a rotating cutter on a dough sheeter when the brush was caught in the cutter and the employee's index finger contacted the cutter. The employee's right index finger was partially amputated.

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