# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024032499` · 3/20/2024 · SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** APPLIED FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY, INC.
- **Location:** #3 Research Park Drive, SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI, 63304
- **NAICS:** 541711
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a can seamer in the research and development lab when their left index fingertip got caught between the seam press and the rotating can, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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