# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Hood Industries - Silver Creek
> OSHA SIR `2025055082` · 5/29/2025 · SILVER CREEK, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hood Industries - Silver Creek
- **Location:** 66 MILES LUMBER CO. RD, SILVER CREEK, MISSISSIPPI, 39663
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making gang saw guides using an air-operated mold press. The employee was clearing molded material that was stuck inside the press when the start button actuated. The employee's right thumb was amputated below the fingernail.

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