# Amputations at Nettles Beef Processing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018076625` · 7/2/2018 · LAKE CITY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Nettles Beef Processing, Inc.
- **Location:** 147 SW CR 240, LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, 32025
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was brushing off excess meat from a grinder when the spiral knife blade amputated her right pointer finger above the first knuckle. The grinder was in operation at the time of the incident.

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