# Amputations at Smithfield Foods, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20191010676` · 10/12/2019 · SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Smithfield Foods, Inc
- **Location:** 410 Kirk Rd, SAINT CHARLES, ILLINOIS, 60174
- **NAICS:** 424470
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing meat from a bone collector when a piston on the machine amputated his right index fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*