# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Garrett Popcorn Holding Company
> OSHA SIR `2024032722` · 3/26/2024 · AURORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Heating and cooking machinery, appliances  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Garrett Popcorn Holding Company
- **Location:** 600 N. Commerce Street, AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60504
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was wiping down a chain link on a popcorn popper with a hand towel when the towel got caught in the chain link along with his left index fingertip, resulting in an amputation.

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