# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Salem Fabrication Technologies Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054031` · 5/8/2024 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Fan and turbine parts
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** Salem Fabrication Technologies Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 3320 Maggie Boulevard, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32811
- **NAICS:** 327211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a blower part to a flat glass machine. There was a jack under the blower and a 2 x 6 was under the jack. The employee was holding the 2 x 6 and operating the jack when the top of the jack caught on a flange and the blower slipped off the top of the jack. The tip of the employee's left thumb was crushed between the blower and the wood and it was amputated.

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