# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at JELD-WEN, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2024065051` · 6/7/2024 · TOWANDA, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine and tool parts, accessories  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** JELD-WEN, Incorporated
- **Location:** 825 Shiner Road, TOWANDA, PENNSYLVANIA, 18848
- **NAICS:** 321219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was examining filter socks in a paint tote inside a booth. The employee noticed that a sock was displaced and floating in the tote. As the employee tried to retrieve it, it became entangled in the rotating agitator inside the tote, which then entangled the employee's left hand in the sock. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle fingertip.

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