# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Atkinson Candy Company
> OSHA SIR `2024032755` · 3/27/2024 · LUFKIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Atkinson Candy Company
- **Location:** 1608 Frank Avenue, LUFKIN, TEXAS, 75915
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a fondant machine and amputated part of his left middle fingertip without bone loss. The tissue was surgically reattached.

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