# Amputations involving bone loss at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024109779` · 10/21/2024 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## 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:** Meat grinders
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 3660 North Parkway, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30040
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a meat blockage from an auger and amputated his right index finger. The machine was guarded but not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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