# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Excelsior Spring Seating Systems
> OSHA SIR `2024021720` · 2/25/2024 · EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI
## 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:** Industrial vacuums
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Excelsior Spring Seating Systems
- **Location:** 301 S. McCleary Road, EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, MISSOURI, 64024
- **NAICS:** 336360
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam in a vacuum. Four fingers on his right hand were caught inside the collection bag by the vacuum's fan blades. He suffered an amputation to the index fingertip, abrasions to the thumb, a skin avulsion to the middle finger, and abrasions and bruising to the ring finger.

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