# Amputations at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109899` · 10/14/2017 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc.
- **Location:** 5000 FM 1912, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79108
- **NAICS:** 311611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a grinding stone to sharpen knives and amputated a fingertip.

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