# Amputations at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., LTD. (LLC)
> OSHA SIR `2021054122` · 5/20/2021 · AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., LTD. (LLC)
- **Location:** 1301 New Savannah Road, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 30901
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to retrieve a piece of meat lodged in a conveyor. The conveyor belt caught the employee's left hand. The hand was amputated.

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