# Amputations at Tyson Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201110937` · 11/18/2020 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyson Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 5807 Mitchell Ave., SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64507
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam on the packaging machine and sustained amputation of the left index finger at the first knuckle.

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