# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Thermotron Industries
> OSHA SIR `2024109313` · 10/5/2024 · SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Workers engaging in team lift
## Employer
- **Name:** Thermotron Industries
- **Location:** 2600 North 3rd Street, SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI, 63301
- **NAICS:** 334515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were replacing a compressor and were moving it when one employee dropped the compressor and it landed on his right hand on the floor. The employee sustained an amputation to his middle fingertip.

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