# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024053845` · 5/2/2024 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 3660 North Parkway, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30040
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a plate into a food forming machine when the plate slipped and crushed his right ring finger between the plate and the frame, resulting in a soft tissue amputation to the fingertip with a reattachment surgery.

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