# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Smithfield Fresh Meats Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043979` · 4/29/2025 · MILAN, MISSOURI
## 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:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Fresh Meats Inc.
- **Location:** 22123 HWY 5, MILAN, MISSOURI, 63556
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was staging product for the belt-fed rib saw when a jam occurred inside the saw housing. While clearing the jam, the employee's left middle and ring fingers contacted the saw blade. The ring fingertip was amputated.

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