# Amputations at Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021076253` · 7/28/2021 · HOLCOMB, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.
- **Location:** 3105 IBP ROAD, HOLCOMB, KANSAS, 67851
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting maintenance on a stacker machine. When the employee adjusted a chain on the machine's conveyor belt, the chain pinched the employee's right index finger and amputated the fingertip.

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