# Amputations at Riceland Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032813` · 3/27/2020 · JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Riceland Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 216 G Street, JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, 72401
- **NAICS:** 311212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an R-valve that was clogged with rice. He was using a metal rod to break up the clog. When the clog of rice broke loose, the blades in the R-valve started to rotate and amputated his left middle fingertip.

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