# Amputations at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021054391` · 5/30/2021 · HOLCOMB, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by injured worker
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
- **Location:** 3105 N IBP Rd., HOLCOMB, KANSAS, 67851
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was maneuvering a product cart with his hands on the sides of the cart. As he was doing so, the employee's left pinky finger got caught between the cart and the edge of a metal guard on a conveyor belt resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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