# Amputations at Sanderson Farms, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043513` · 4/12/2018 · SUMMIT, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanderson Farms, Inc.
- **Location:** 4039 River Ridge Road, SUMMIT, MISSISSIPPI, 39666
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing scrap material from a machine when the employee's right index fingertip was caught and amputated in the machine. The machine was guarded and energized at the time of the incident.

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