# Amputations at Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023109186` · 10/5/2023 · RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
- **Location:** 2045 Highway 244, RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA, 35654
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packaging chicken tenders using a vacuum packaging machine. As the employee went to make an adjustment to the package, a seal bar crushed and amputated her left index fingertip.

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