# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076019` · 7/4/2024 · WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 87 18th St., WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, 26003
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing plastic wrap from a machine with the machine propped open, when the knife descended and cut their right thumb tip and index finger. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery and a medical amputation to the thumb tip and index finger.

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