# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at F & S Fresh Foods
> OSHA SIR `2024109283` · 10/4/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food slicers
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** F & S Fresh Foods
- **Location:** 8255 Tewantin Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77061
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding cabbage into a slicer to be shredded when a jam occurred. The employee stopped the machine, removed the guard to clear the jam, and sustained a partial amputation to his left index finger.

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