# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Peco Foods Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025010520` · 1/16/2025 · CANTON, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Peco Foods Inc
- **Location:** 1039 West Fulton Street, CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, 39046
- **NAICS:** 333241
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a chicken neck skinning machine when they noticed chicken skin was stuck on a piece of the machinery. The employee removed the piece of excess skin and their left index finger got caught in the equipment, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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