# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at The Masterson Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043244` · 4/14/2024 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** The Masterson Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 4023 West National Avenue, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53215
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a packaging machine when film that was traveling through the machine got jammed. The employee knelt on the floor and attempted to pull the film from the machine when the seal bars cycled shut and contacted his right index finger, resulting a fingertip amputation.

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