# Amputations at Seneca Foods
> OSHA SIR `2019032995` · 3/21/2019 · PAYETTE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Seneca Foods
- **Location:** 25 N 6th Street, PAYETTE, IDAHO, 83661
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee and a forklift operator were unloading bean totes out of rail cars. The totes are large fabric bags with fabric loops that are used to move the totes. The injured employee was guiding the forklift operator to place the forks into the tote's loops when the injured employee's right pinky finger was pinched between the forks and the loops resulting in a partial amputation.

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