# Amputations at Tyson Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019032880` · 3/19/2019 · CENTER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1019 Shelbyville Street, CENTER, TEXAS, 75935
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing chicken parts from a jammed half cutter machine. The machine amputated the employee's right index, middle, and ring fingers.

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