# Amputations at Riceland Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043586` · 4/19/2020 · 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, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Riceland Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 216 Gee Street, JONESBORO, ARKANSAS, 72401
- **NAICS:** 311212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a rice miller's cooling chamber discharge. The feed screw inside the machine caught his right index finger, amputating it below the nailbed.

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