# Amputations at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2022098486` · 9/26/2022 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 200 S. 2nd St., LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68508
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling a machine. As he was placing a roller assembly onto the posts that held it in place, his right ring finger was caught between a post and its hole. He suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

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