# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Priority Plastics
> OSHA SIR `2024043486` · 4/22/2024 · ARVADA, COLORADO
## 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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Priority Plastics
- **Location:** 5861 Tennyson St, ARVADA, COLORADO, 80003
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee used an aluminum stick to remove plastic that was jammed in the screw of a machine. The stick got caught in the screw and was pulled into the machine. The machine then contacted the employee's left middle fingertip resulting in surgical amputation.

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