# Amputations involving bone loss at Tyson Farms, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025087889` · 8/10/2025 · HANCEVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Farms, Inc.
- **Location:** 851 County Road 508, HANCEVILLE, ALABAMA, 35077
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing a cyclone machine. His right hand was caught inside the machine by the rotating motion of the airlock valve cycling inside the casing, resulting in the amputation of four fingers.

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