# Amputations at GEORGES INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017054566` · 5/19/2017 · CASSVILLE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** GEORGES INC.
- **Location:** 9066 State Highway W, CASSVILLE, MISSOURI, 65625
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hosing down floors with water when he noticed a piece of chicken stuck in an external neck skin cutter and attempted to remove it. The cutter's moving blades then amputated his left index fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*