# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Meteor Sealing Systems, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025043875` · 4/25/2025 · DOVER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Meteor Sealing Systems, LLC
- **Location:** 400 S. Tuscarawas Avenue, DOVER, OHIO, 44622
- **NAICS:** 326291
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing jammed material from an extruder machine. The employee reached their left hand through the unguarded opening between the extruder machine and the conveyor belt to manually dislodge the jam and contacted the moving chain and sprockets, resulting in an amputation to the left thumb.

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