# Amputations involving bone loss at Mountaire Farms of Delaware
> OSHA SIR `2024021433` · 2/15/2024 · MILLSBORO, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Mountaire Farms of Delaware
- **Location:** 29006 John J. Williams Highway, MILLSBORO, DELAWARE, 19966
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was straightening the bag liner that was in the sealing bars of an automated packaging machine when the machine activated and amputated their left middle finger.

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