# Amputations at TYSON FOODS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20171110541` · 11/1/2017 · CARTHAGE, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS, INC.
- **Location:** 3865 HIGHWAY 35 NORTH, CARTHAGE, MISSISSIPPI, 39051
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting together some equipment for startup when the employee's right index finger was pinched between a plate and a heat exchanger, amputating the fingertip.

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