# Amputations at SMITHFIELD FOODS INC
> OSHA SIR `2018032083` · 3/1/2018 · MILAN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** SMITHFIELD FOODS INC
- **Location:** 22123 hIGHWAY 5, MILAN, MISSOURI, 63556
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting meat with a center-cut saw when the saw did not cut through the meat. He reached for the meat to tear it off and his left thumb hit the saw blade, resulting in a partial amputation.

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