# Amputations involving bone loss at Wayne-Sanderson Farms, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098747` · 9/19/2024 · UNION SPRINGS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Wayne-Sanderson Farms, LLC
- **Location:** 444 Baskin Street South, UNION SPRINGS, ALABAMA, 36089
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 19, 2024, a sanitation employee was cleaning a gizzard peeler machine. While removing a piece of meat, his glove was pulled into the rollers of the machine, resulting in amputation of his left index and middle fingers to the first joint.

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