# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Fieldale Farms Poultry, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024064830` · 6/2/2024 · GAINESVILLE, 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Fieldale Farms Poultry, LLC
- **Location:** 1540 Monroe Drive, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30507
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a box machine and lubing the chain with a can of spray lube when their left index finger contacted the chain. The drive sprocket of the machine amputated the fingertip.

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