# Amputations at Peco Foods, INC
> OSHA SIR `2021065092` · 6/22/2021 · WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Peco Foods, INC
- **Location:** 1379 West Church Hill Road, WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 39773
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping change trays for a shaker table. As the employee was closing a latch for a tray, it caught his index fingertip. About a quarter of the fingertip was amputated.

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