# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at United Dairy, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109235` · 10/3/2024 · MARTINS FERRY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** United Dairy, Inc.
- **Location:** 300 N. Fifth Street, MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, 43935
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a blow molding machine and blowing gallon jugs when his right hand was pinched in the machine. He sustained amputation of the ring fingertip and fractures to the middle and little fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

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