# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Universal Forming, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024031891` · 3/1/2024 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Structural elements  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Forming, Inc.
- **Location:** 4000 Lakeland Highlands Rd, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33812
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a steel post shore that was supporting a piece of plywood. While he was using a spud wrench to twist the post shore out of place, the post shore's upper section lowered and caught his fingertip, resulting a fingertip amputation.

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