# Amputations at TYSON FOODS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019032804` · 3/17/2019 · STAR CITY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** TYSON FOODS, INC.
- **Location:** 500 Industrial Drive, STAR CITY, ARKANSAS, 71667
- **NAICS:** 112340
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in a chick trailer. As he was repositioning a flat hook (on a winch) attached to the last chick tray, the attached cable straightened out. His left hand was caught between the hook and the dolly and his index finger was crushed. The finger was amputated.

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