# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Sturm, Ruger, & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098153` · 9/3/2024 · NEWPORT, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## 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:** Sandblasting machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Sturm, Ruger, & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 411 Sunapee Street, NEWPORT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03773
- **NAICS:** 331512
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dislodging a part that was stuck in the shot blasting machine when the part released and shifted, catching the employee's left middle finger between the part and the belt of the machine. The employee pulled his hand away and sustained a fingertip amputation.

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