# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Alta Mine Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043106` · 4/9/2024 · NORTHWOOD, OHIO
## 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:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** Alta Mine Services, LLC
- **Location:** 6185 Drouillard Rd, NORTHWOOD, OHIO, 43619
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 9, 2024, an employee was changing out a die on a punch press. As he leaned forward to push the joystick up to raise the die, the press was activated and the dies closed. His left index finger was caught between the dies and he suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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