# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Graham Packaging PET Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098978` · 9/25/2024 · ROCKWALL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Sanding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Graham Packaging PET Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 700 Industrial Blvd, ROCKWALL, TEXAS, 75087
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding a piece of metal on a bench sander when the work piece and the employee's gloved hand were pulled into the sanding wheel causing an amputation injury without bone loss to the employee's right thumb.

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