# Amputations at Southern Corporate Packers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054626` · 5/22/2017 · TRENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Corporate Packers, Inc.
- **Location:** 830 NE Trenton Blvd, TRENTON, FLORIDA, 32693
- **NAICS:** 424480
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grating watermelons on a conveyor belt that was moving very slowly. He was attempting to make the conveyor belt move faster when it caught and amputated his right middle fingertip.

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