# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Tyson Poultry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024053847` · 5/2/2024 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## 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:** Heating and cooking machinery, appliances  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Poultry, Inc.
- **Location:** 4990 Leland Drive, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30041
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance services to the gearbox of a rendering cooker when their left thumb tip was lacerated between the belt and the drive, resulting in an amputation to the thumb tip.

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