# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2025021715` · 2/21/2025 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## 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:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp.
- **Location:** 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a hot dog peeler. They went to remove a casing and their left middle finger struck the wheels of the peel, resulting in a fracture and avulsion that required medical amputation of the fingertip.

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