# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Smithfield Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025065899` · 6/20/2025 · WICHITA, KANSAS
## 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 2323 S Sheridan Street, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67213
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a packaging machine and went to unjam some plastic. Her left hand contacted the cutting blades resulting in a partial amputation to the middle fingertip. A guard was in place at the time.

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