# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Kane Innovations, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087624` · 8/19/2024 · KANE, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Kane Innovations, Inc.
- **Location:** 515 North Fraley Street, KANE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16735
- **NAICS:** 332323
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were working on a shear wire machine when a piece of wire became jammed. The injured employee went to free the piece of metal and the shear blade came down on his left hand. The employee's index fingertip was amputated. One or more methods of machine guarding was not provided.

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