# Amputations at NATIONAL BEEF PACKING COMPANY, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017087405` · 8/3/2017 · MOULTRIE, GEORGIA
## 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-powered, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** NATIONAL BEEF PACKING COMPANY, LLC
- **Location:** 189 WEST BY-PASS, MOULTRIE, GEORGIA, 31768
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a metal hook to remove pork loins from a metal grid conveyor belt coming from a freezer tunnel when the hook was caught in the metal grid and his left thumb was pinched between the conveyor belt and hook handle. His left thumb tip was amputated below the nail.

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