# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at AIRTEX MANUFACTURING LLLP ENGINEERED AIR
> OSHA SIR `2024054245` · 5/14/2024 · DE SOTO, KANSAS
## Severity
- **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:** Container caps, lids, covers
- **Secondary source:** Beams, rods, blocks  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AIRTEX MANUFACTURING LLLP ENGINEERED AIR
- **Location:** 32050 W 83RD ST, DE SOTO, KANSAS, 66018
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a 279-pound, 4 feet x 8 feet plenum metal cap when the cap slipped off the block that it was resting on and pinched his right middle finger against the floor. This severed the tip of the finger and he was hospitalized.

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