# Amputations at Sanderson Farms, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201211565` · 12/9/2020 · WACO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanderson Farms, Inc.
- **Location:** 301 Aviation Parkway, WACO, TEXAS, 76705
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a gizzard machine. As he was trying to retrieve his scouring pad from the machine, the peeler rollers pinched his right index fingertip. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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