# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at PECO FOODS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024054765` · 5/30/2024 · SEBASTOPOL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** PECO FOODS, INC.
- **Location:** 15292 HWY 21 SOUTH, SEBASTOPOL, MISSISSIPPI, 39359
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing chicken parts from an evisceration machine when his glove contacted the moving blade and pulling his right hand into the blade. The employee sustained amputation of the right middle fingertip.

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