# Amputations at Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017031952` · 3/1/2017 · DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
- **Location:** 113 McNeal Drive, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA, 31534
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was under a conveyor to retrieve a bird in live hang and caught their right hand in an unguarded, moving chain and sprocket resulting in partial amputation of the right middle, ring, and pinky fingers.

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