# Amputations at Smithfield Packaged Meats
> OSHA SIR `2022075944` · 7/8/2022 · OMAHA, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Packaged Meats
- **Location:** 5015 South 33rd Street, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 68107
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a drive to a conveyor. As he worked on the chain, the conveyor started up and caught his left hand fingers in the sprocket resulting in amputation of the index, middle and ring fingertips.

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