# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Sierra Plastics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043445` · 4/13/2025 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## 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:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Sierra Plastics, Inc.
- **Location:** 1101 Burgandy Dr., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79907
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a rotary die cutter that was not cycling properly, causing material to jam. The employee was working with a belt in the back of the machine when the belt and a pulley caught his right index finger and amputated the fingertip.

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