# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Howmet Aerospace Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054548` · 5/23/2024 · NILES, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running
- **Source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
- **Secondary source:** Building materials n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Howmet Aerospace Inc.
- **Location:** 1000 Warren Road, NILES, OHIO, 44446
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a metal shim on the right car of a grinder to align a square slab with the cart's material edge stop. The slab shifted and their left index finger was pinched between the slab and the shim, resulting in a partial amputation of the fingertip without bone loss.

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