# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Superior Tube Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109672` · 10/17/2024 · COLLEGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Superior Tube Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3900 Germantown Pike, COLLEGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19426
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tagging a tube, which involved feeding the tube into a rotary hammer-type milling machine. The glove on his left hand was pulled around the tube, resulting in a partial amputation to his left little fingertip and tissue damage to his left ring finger.

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