# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Treehouse Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024021176` · 2/7/2024 · NORTHLAKE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Treehouse Foods
- **Location:** 1912 Farmer Brothers Drive, NORTHLAKE, TEXAS, 76262
- **NAICS:** 311824
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a magnet in the waste bin while cleaning the metal. The employee walked the magnet to the other side of the line, then placed the magnet on a metal surface which caught their hands between the metal and the magnet, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip.

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