# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Paragon Plastics Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024098432` · 9/11/2024 · TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA
## 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  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Stationary saws  band
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Paragon Plastics Inc
- **Location:** 1401 Armstrong Drive, TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA, 32780
- **NAICS:** 424610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a production process that includes rough cutting a part using a band saw. When the employee went to push the part into the saw blade, the blade cut the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation.

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