# Amputations at Smithfield Farmland
> OSHA SIR `2016043416` · 4/24/2016 · CRETE, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Farmland
- **Location:** 2223 County Rd. I, CRETE, NEBRASKA, 68333
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a skinner machine when his right hand came in contact with the skinner blade, amputating the third fingertip above the joint and below the nail cuticle.

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