# Amputations at Harker Meats, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021108974` · 10/18/2021 · WASHINGTON, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Overhead hoists, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Harker Meats, Inc.
- **Location:** 27191 State Highway 74, WASHINGTON, OKLAHOMA, 73093
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing a break in a hoist chain. His left hand got caught in the chain, and he suffered partial amputations to three fingers: the index finger (at the first knuckle) and the little and ring fingers (at the second knuckles).

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