# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Smithfield Foods
> OSHA SIR `2025077052` · 7/20/2025 · WICHITA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods
- **Location:** 2323 S Sheridan, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67213
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tearing down a sausage-linking machine as part of a weekly pipe clean out. As the meat piled up on the machine, he went to clean the meat off the top of the machine. The metering gears contacted his left index finger, resulting in a soft tissue fingertip amputation.

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