# Amputations at AlaTrade Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016043219` · 4/18/2016 · ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** AlaTrade Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 200 Tyson Drive, ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA, 35950
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting pre-operational adjustments on a DSI machine. While closing a panel, his left pinky finger was caught and amputated between the panel and the machine.

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