# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Flowers Baking Co. of Baton Rouge, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024031932` · 3/2/2024 · BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Flowers Baking Co. of Baton Rouge, LLC
- **Location:** 1504 Florida Blvd., BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70802
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a machine. The employee was using a shop rag to clean the area when the chain and sprocket caught the rag and pulled in the employee's right hand, causing a partial amputation to the index fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

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