# Amputations at Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020065967` · 6/26/2020 · MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
- **Location:** 129 Potomac Avenue, MOOREFIELD, WEST VIRGINIA, 26836
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just cleared a machine, jammed by a mis-cut, in poultry cut-up area. The employee was reaching to remove a second mis-cut when the circular saw started up and amputated the tips of the employee's right thumb and index finger (with no bone loss).

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