# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Aluma-Weld, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076638` · 7/22/2024 · HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Rollers, cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Aluma-Weld, Inc.
- **Location:** 199 Extrusion Place, HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 71901
- **NAICS:** 336612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was helping another employee position an aluminum coil onto rollers to spool the sheets onto a table to be cut by a computerized plasma torch. The injured employee's right hand was pulled under the roll and the underside of all their right-hand fingers sustained lacerations and contusions. The little fingertip was amputated and the employee was hospitalized.

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