# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Defense Commissary Agency, Lewis Main Commissary
> OSHA SIR `2025032475` · 3/15/2025 · JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD, WASHINGTON
## 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  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Defense Commissary Agency, Lewis Main Commissary
- **Location:** 5275 North 14th Street, JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD, WASHINGTON, 98433
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was using a bandsaw to cut a steak. The saw flipped and contacted the pulp of the employee's fingertip, causing a fingertip amputation.

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