# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Simon Property Group
> OSHA SIR `2024065676` · 6/25/2024 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## 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:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Simon Property Group
- **Location:** 8401 Gateway Blvd W, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79925
- **NAICS:** 452319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder to reach the access door to the blower of the air handler in the stock room. He was holding the bottom edge of the door with his left hand, and his thumb was gripping the inside of the panel. The motor for the unit turned on and the suction force caused the door to shut, partially amputating his left thumb tip.

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