# Amputations at Cargill Meat Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2023043052` · 4/6/2023 · DODGE CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Cargill Meat Solutions
- **Location:** 3201 E. Trail St., DODGE CITY, KANSAS, 67801
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioning a shackle onto a transition wheel to hang carcasses on the incline chain. The shackle twisted and the employee's right index finger was pinched between the shackle shaft and rail guide plate. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the fingertip and a distal tuft fracture to the finger.

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