# Amputations at TYSON FOODS
> OSHA SIR `2021065200` · 6/25/2021 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS
- **Location:** 5807 MITCHELL AVE, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64505
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to break down a machine to clean meat out of the actuator valve when the valve cycled and amputated the employee's right index finger down to the first knuckle.

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