# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021738` · 2/22/2025 · DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA
## 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:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
- **Location:** 1131 Dakota Avenue, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, 68731
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine in the rendering department and noticed a belt was moving slowly. He was working to make the belt go faster when the belt pulled his left hand and the pulley partially amputated his ring fingertip.

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