# Amputations at Shearers Foods
> OSHA SIR `2016076910` · 7/28/2016 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Shearers Foods
- **Location:** 3203 Avenue B, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the rollers after the tipper belt on a machine and was replacing a band on the drive shaft. He was trying to get the new band on the drive shaft when his right thumb tip was amputated. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*