# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Norac Additives, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021923` · 2/27/2025 · HELENA, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Scales
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Norac Additives, LLC
- **Location:** 360 Phillips Road 311, HELENA, ARKANSAS, 72342
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to place a scale (approximately 4' x 4') on a work stand. They were aligning the scale when the chain supporting the scale was pulled, causing their left thumb to get caught between the scale and the work stand. The thumb was fractured and the tip was amputated.

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