# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at YI French Pastries LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024065481` · 6/20/2024 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food slicers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** YI French Pastries LLC
- **Location:** 253 36th Street, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11232
- **NAICS:** 311813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been using soap and a towel to clean a slicer. They were finishing the cleaning procedure when the power switch was activated. The slicer turned on while the employee's right ring finger was in the blade gap and the blade amputated their fingertip without bone loss.

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