# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Lippert Components, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032739` · 3/27/2024 · PERRY, FLORIDA
## 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:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Lippert Components, Inc.
- **Location:** 606 Industrial Park Drive, PERRY, FLORIDA, 32348
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee got on top of an aseptic food and beverage carton filling machine to remove a piece of loose metal that was in the way when the machine cycled and the shear contacted his hand, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

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