# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Cheminstruments, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065399` · 6/18/2024 · FAIRFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Cheminstruments, Inc.
- **Location:** 510 Commercial Drive, FAIRFIELD, OHIO, 45014
- **NAICS:** 334516
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding stainless steel (2 x 6) sheet metal into a shear machine inside the warehouse. The pressure plate on the shear machine crushed the employee's right index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip pad.

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