# Amputations at Prime Pak Foods Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017076210` · 7/6/2017 · GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Prime Pak Foods Inc
- **Location:** 2076 Memorial Park Drive, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30504
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pair of pliers to clear jammed chicken from a cuber machine when the employee's left hand was pulled into the machine's knives, lacerating and partially amputating the ring and pinky fingers.

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