# Amputations at Simmons Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043210` · 4/4/2018 · SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Simmons Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 E. Main St., SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 72761
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was gathering samples of frozen chickens that were being conveyed on a product freezer belt to a plastic scrapper when her right index finger was caught in between the scrapper and the conveyor belt, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The nip point between the scrapper and belt was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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