# Amputations involving bone loss at Tyson Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043803` · 4/23/2025 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## 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:** Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 5000 N FM 1912, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79108
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a blender in the ground beef department when frozen meat became trapped in the blender. The employee was removing the stuck meat when his right ring finger was caught in the machine, resulting in medical amputation of the finger.

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