# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at SK Battery America Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241110588` · 11/13/2024 · COMMERCE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** SK Battery America Inc.
- **Location:** 1760 SK Boulevard, COMMERCE, GEORGIA, 30529
- **NAICS:** 335912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance and lubricating the chain on a machine when the chain pulled the rag the employee was using into the machine, resulting in amputation of the employee's left index fingertip.

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