# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Discount Tire
> OSHA SIR `20241211747` · 12/19/2024 · AMARILLO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Discount Tire
- **Location:** 8000 Interstate 40, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 79106
- **NAICS:** 441320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was balancing a tire using a tire balancer machine. The employee removed the tire from the balancer and the tire's weight pulled their hand down, causing the the tire balancer shaft to amputate their left index fingertip.

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