# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Aurora Plastics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024087843` · 8/24/2024 · PASADENA, 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:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Aurora Plastics, LLC
- **Location:** 4395 Pasadena Freeway, PASADENA, TEXAS, 77503
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing strips of plastic that had jammed in a dicer. The blade caught the employee's cut-resistant glove, pulling their hand into the cutter and amputating the tips of their right ring and little fingers. The fingertips were reattached at the hospital.

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