# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at NC Works Inc
> OSHA SIR `20241110998` · 11/26/2024 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## 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:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** NC Works Inc
- **Location:** 16711 Applewhite Rd., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78264
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a roller machine to clean a clogged vacuum hose under the roller. The employee turned the roller machine off. The rollers continued to move due to residual energy and caught the employee's left middle finger, causing a fingertip amputation. The machine was not locked out/tagged out or guarded at the time.

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