# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at TOVALA
> OSHA SIR `2024010012` · 1/2/2024 · CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** TOVALA
- **Location:** 248 Tubeway Drive, CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS, 60188
- **NAICS:** 311423
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a dry depositor machine when he observed a jammed product. The employee was retrieving the product when a plate contacted their right middle fingertip, resulting in amputation.

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