# Amputations at Smithfield Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086914` · 8/14/2021 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was removing a screw housing from a machine when the machine housing pinched his left middle finger, 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*