# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at A.R.M. Tech, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024065524` · 6/21/2024 · LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** A.R.M. Tech, Inc.
- **Location:** Crown Bakeries (Formerly Bagel Boy), LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, 01843
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance contractor employee was in the process of re-installing a newly repaired machine guard back onto a four-lane bagel-making machine by inserting a mounting bolt. He reached around the guard to secure the nut and his right fingertips were pinched against a stationary part of the machine by the pneumatic indexer. He sustained amputations to two fingertips. Lock out/tag out procedures were not used.

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