# Amputations at Roger Wood Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111049` · 11/27/2016 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Roger Wood Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 7 Alfred Street, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31408
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a sausage stuffing machine. She had placed an empty sausage casing on the horn of the machine and was feeding it to the chuck when the machine was activated. Her right index fingertip was caught and amputated between the chuck and horn.

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