# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Newman Technology of Alabama, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032044` · 3/5/2024 · ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA
## 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:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Newman Technology of Alabama, Inc.
- **Location:** 2331 George Wallace Drive, ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA, 35951
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing the chain on an extrusion molding run table. When the machine started up again they were caught in the chain and the sprocket, resulting in an open displaced fracture to their right middle and ring fingertips, a laceration to the middle finger, and an amputation of the right index fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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