# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at SIMMONS FOODS, INC
> OSHA SIR `2024032702` · 3/26/2024 · VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** SIMMONS FOODS, INC
- **Location:** 5 MAIN STREET, VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS, 72956
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting a hose to a batter mix pump to assemble the batter machine when their hand slipped and was caught in the impeller of the pump, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

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