# Amputations at SeaBoard Foods
> OSHA SIR `2015010630` · 1/20/2015 · GUYMON, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** SeaBoard Foods
- **Location:** 2700 NE 28th Street, GUYMON, OKLAHOMA, 73942
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 1/20/2015, at about 6:30 p.m., an employee helped a second employee at the Townsend Skinner machine, which separates pig fat from pig skin. The employee reached into the conveyor belt, which has serrated teeth, and his right little finger was caught. He was transported to BSA Hospital in Amarillo, Texas, and his right little finger was amputated.

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