# Amputations involving bone loss at Big Creek Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024109732` · 10/18/2024 · GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Food slicers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Creek Foods
- **Location:** 2637 White Sulphur Rd., GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30501
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to use a slicer when he sustained an amputation to his right index finger through the phalanx.

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