# Amputations at Sanderson Farms Tyler Processing
> OSHA SIR `2021098191` · 9/22/2021 · TYLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanderson Farms Tyler Processing
- **Location:** 13523 FM 2015, TYLER, TEXAS, 75708
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing chicken parts from the breast processor when the blade of the breast processor amputated the employee's fingertip.

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