# Amputations involving bone loss at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025021903` · 2/27/2025 · SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation
- **Location:** 1400 North Weber Avenue, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, 57103
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working as a product tree pusher. He was removing damaged product when his right hand was caught between the head sealer and the bottom seal plate on the form-fill-seal packaging machine. The employee sustained amputations to his little and ring fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out or guarded at the time of the incident.

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