# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Sarasota Medical Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043641` · 4/18/2025 · SARASOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Sarasota Medical Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 1451 Sarasota Center Blvd., SARASOTA, FLORIDA, 34240
- **NAICS:** 339113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an automated bagging and packaging machine to bag hydrocolloids. A bag was stuck in the machine. As the employee was removing it, the blade amputated the top of their right index finger.

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