# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Costco Wholesale
> OSHA SIR `2024043331` · 4/16/2024 · STRONGSVILLE, OHIO
## 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:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale
- **Location:** 16690 Royalton Rd., STRONGSVILLE, OHIO, 44136
- **NAICS:** 452311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training to be a meat cutter. As they were learning to cut meat on a band saw, the saw blade contacted his right hand after it slipped on the meat, resulting in partial fingertip amputations of the index and middle fingers.

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