# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at United States Sugar Savannah Refinery, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025043935` · 4/28/2025 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## 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  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Combustion engine blocks, cylinders, pistons
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Sugar Savannah Refinery, LLC
- **Location:** 201 Oxnard Drive, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31407
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While explaining to a co-worker how to install a new gate on the palletizer machine, an employee's left thumb tip was amputated by the machine's piston.

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