# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010459` · 1/17/2024 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Inc.
- **Location:** 1804 SOUTH GREEN STREET, TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38804
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A forced variation machine's locking mechanism jammed and failed to cycle. An employee's left index fingertip was caught between the machine's upper lock mechanism and a tire rim. The fingertip was amputated at the nail.

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