# Amputations at KERRY INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022043308` · 4/15/2022 · ROME, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** KERRY INC.
- **Location:** 5 Douglas St, ROME, GEORGIA, 30161
- **NAICS:** 425120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the chunker when dough piled up underneath the chunker. The employee started to remove the dough when his hand got caught between the belt and the cutter on the chunker. The employee sustained an amputation to the right thumb.

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