# Amputations involving bone loss at Cargill Meat Solutions
> OSHA SIR `2025021824` · 2/25/2025 · FORT MORGAN, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Cargill Meat Solutions
- **Location:** 1505 E. Burlington Ave., FORT MORGAN, COLORADO, 80701
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the basement when he observed animal blood dripping from a small hole in the auger trough. The employee went to plug the hole with a small piece of fat. As the employee pushed the fat into the hole, the auger flight caught his fingertip, resulting in amputation between the nailbed and first knuckle.

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