# Amputations at Alatrade Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016099113` · 9/27/2016 · ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Alatrade Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 200 Tyson Drive, ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA, 35950
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the cooler taking boxes of chicken off a conveyor when his glove and right ring fingertip were caught in a knuckle chain on the conveyor. The first distal segment of the employee's ring finger was damaged and had to be amputated.

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