# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Puratos Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20241211725` · 12/19/2024 · KENOSHA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Puratos Corporation
- **Location:** 5000 70th Avenue, KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, 53144
- **NAICS:** 311320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a bag that was stuck in the bag sealing machine when their right thumb became caught in one of the back wheels, resulting in an amputation of the thumb tip.

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