Turning chickens into chicken nuggets can be a rough business. A new OSHA report lists the fingers and other body parts lost in meat factories.

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One year ago, a sanitation worker at a meat-processing plant in Missouri lost both his hands in a work-related accident. Two months later, a worker amputated part of his right thumb while running flat steaks over a skinner (a blade that removes the outer layer of meat) in an Amarillo, Texas factory. "Skinners. Band saws. Wing saws. Hide grippers. The names of these tools tell just part of the story of why these amputations occurred," wrote Celeste Monforton, a professor of occupational health at George Washington University. Monforton was referring to the kind of machines that caused 34 injuries at 10 meatpacking plants run by Tyson Foods in the first nine months of 2015 — for an average of one amputation per month. Monforton compiled a full tally of the amputations, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request:

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Iowa Public Radio first covered Monforton's findings. The details are available thanks to a new Occupational Health and Safety Agency (OSHA) regulation requiring that all work-related incidents resulting in an amputation or hospitalization be reported within 24 hours. "We don’t want anyone hurt on the job," a Tyson spokesperson told BuzzFeed News in an email. "We’re continually focused on improving workplace safety and preventing accidents for all of our 113,000 team members." Data from OSHA has long been considered inaccurate due to under-reporting by workers and employers, as noted in a report by Oxfam America last year and a Government Accountability Office study from 2009. While plants must report the number of days taken off by workers due to injuries, Monforton told BuzzFeed News in October that plants sometimes keep injured workers on site, sitting idly in offices, to avoid having to record the time off. The Oxfam America report implicated all four of the country's largest chicken producers in unsafe workplace conditions leading to avoidable repetitive motion injuries and grisly amputations.

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