# Amputations at Hormel Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022043267` · 4/14/2022 · BELOIT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hormel Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 3000 Kennedy Drive, BELOIT, WISCONSIN, 53511
- **NAICS:** 311422
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee reached inside a machine cap feed though the top of a machine. The conveyor belt caught the employee, causing an amputation to the employee's left index fingertip.

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