# Amputations involving bone loss at Hormel Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025055067` · 5/28/2025 · LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Product labeling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hormel Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 8201 Frazier Pike, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS, 72206
- **NAICS:** 311911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a label cutter drum with a rag. His left index finger was caught in the cutter resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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