# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at HALPERNS' STEAK AND SEAFOOD COMPANY LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043309` · 4/16/2024 · FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** HALPERNS' STEAK AND SEAFOOD COMPANY LLC
- **Location:** 1919 Northwest 19th Street, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, 33311
- **NAICS:** 445299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting rib eye steaks when the blade caught his glove and amputated his left index fingertip. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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