# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at S. R. Sloan, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032673` · 3/25/2024 · ORWIGSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** S. R. Sloan, Inc.
- **Location:** 87 Pinedale Industrial Road, ORWIGSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17961
- **NAICS:** 321214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioning a wooden 2x4 in a pneumatic clamp and removing a metal plate when the clamp closed on their fingertip, crushing and degloving it. This resulted in a medical amputation of the fingertip.

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