# Amputations at Pilgrims Pride Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017109525` · 10/4/2017 · RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Pilgrims Pride Corporation
- **Location:** 2045 County Road 244, RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA, 35654
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove chicken guts from the chain of an eviscerator when the employee's left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated in the chain.

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