# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Tyson Poultry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088600` · 8/28/2025 · WALDRON, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Poultry, Inc.
- **Location:** 442 Plant St, WALDRON, ARKANSAS, 72958
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing at a workstation, preparing to hang poultry. The employee reached to close a manual air damper for an air vent, which caught their left middle finger as it closed. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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