# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Tropicale Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024087035` · 8/2/2024 · LUBBOCK, 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:** Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Transmissions, gears
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropicale Foods
- **Location:** 1001 East 33rd Street, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79404
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on an ice cream machine when his finger was caught in the gears. The employee sustained an amputation of their distal fingertip.

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