# Amputations at Chicken of the Sea
> OSHA SIR `20161110906` · 11/21/2016 · LYONS, GEORGIA
## 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:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Chicken of the Sea
- **Location:** 129 North Commerce Drive, LYONS, GEORGIA, 30436
- **NAICS:** 311711
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing excess tuna from the rear of a filler machine when her right hand became caught in the star wheel (carries empty cans to the filler machine). Her middle and index fingers were amputated, and her right hand suffered multiple fractures.

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