# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Smithfield Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010991` · 1/30/2025 · CUMMING, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 3660 North Parkway, CUMMING, GEORGIA, 30040
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a pipe back together and was setting up equipment prior to start of production. The air valve was turned on and the employee's left thumb was partially amputated by the butterfly spindle inside the pipe.

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