# Amputations at Caviness Beef Packers
> OSHA SIR `2017021377` · 2/11/2017 · HEREFORD, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Animal carcass, roadkill
- **Secondary source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Caviness Beef Packers
- **Location:** 3255 W. Hwy. 60, HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling a cow head off a slide when another head slid down and amputated the employee's left middle finger.

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