# Amputations at Cal Maine Foods Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021097987` · 9/16/2021 · FARWELL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Cal Maine Foods Inc
- **Location:** 410 FM3333, FARWELL, TEXAS, 79325
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a creeper to clean under packers. As he slid under the adjacent packer he reached up and a running chain caught the employee's left hand pulling it into the sprocket. The employee's left ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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