# Amputations at Tecumseh Poultry - Smart Chicken
> OSHA SIR `2019076741` · 7/3/2019 · WAVERLY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tecumseh Poultry - Smart Chicken
- **Location:** 13151 Dovers St., WAVERLY, NEBRASKA, 68462
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a preventive maintenance procedure on a drum/thigh separator when the employee's finger contacted the blade, resulting in a right ring fingertip amputation.

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