# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Sterling Foods Bakery
> OSHA SIR `2024076841` · 7/28/2024 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Sterling Foods Bakery
- **Location:** 1075 Arion Pkwy, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78216
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee used a step ladder to access a sewer area so they could remove a clog in the food depositor machine hopper and sustained an amputation to their index fingertip and fractures to the same hand.

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