# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at ALK Abello Source Materials, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065184` · 6/12/2024 · POST FALLS, IDAHO
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** ALK Abello Source Materials, Inc.
- **Location:** 448 South Lochsa Street, POST FALLS, IDAHO, 83854
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a large equipment skid designed to deliver a metered amount of solid product into a production vessel. The equipment contains a large stainless-steel hopper, a dispensing head that is contained inside a stainless-steel housing and an attached scale. The employee was attempting to clean the dispensing head and free a jam when their fingers were caught in the auger, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation on the right hand.

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