# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Arcos Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025065588` · 6/11/2025 · MOUNT CARMEL, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Arcos Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 394 Arcos Drive, MOUNT CARMEL, PENNSYLVANIA, 17851
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a machine to cut a new work order. He went to place a section of metal banding between a reel and a payoff assembly and his right index finger was caught between the reel spoke and the base of the payoff, causing a fingertip amputation. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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