# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at U.S. Sugar Co., LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010669` · 1/21/2025 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Sugar Co., LLC
- **Location:** 692 Bailey Avenue, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14206
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning and vacuuming a packaging machine when their finger was caught in a chain gear, resulting in amputation of the left little fingertip. The machine was running at the time.

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