# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at The Western Sugar Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2024054474` · 5/21/2024 · FORT MORGAN, COLORADO
## 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 running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** The Western Sugar Cooperative
- **Location:** 18317 CO-144, FORT MORGAN, COLORADO, 80701
- **NAICS:** 311313
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam in the bag sealer machine in the warehouse when his right thumb was caught in the belt and pulley, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

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