# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at BIOKYOWA, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024098468` · 9/11/2024 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object handled by person  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Panels, sheets, plates  metal
- **Secondary source:** Workers engaging in team lift
## Employer
- **Name:** BIOKYOWA, INC.
- **Location:** 5469 Nash Road, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, 63701
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were moving a metal grate from over a concrete pit when one employee's fingers got caught between the grate and the edge of a concrete wall. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated.

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