# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Lincoln Electric Automation - Coldwater
> OSHA SIR `2025077312` · 7/26/2025 · COLDWATER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Other miscellaneous machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Lincoln Electric Automation - Coldwater
- **Location:** 911 North 2nd Street, COLDWATER, OHIO, 45828
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 26, 2025, an employee was assembling a custom-designed automation line. During troubleshooting, he made contact with a photoelectric sensor that was part of the machine s part detection system. This triggered a small pneumatic crimping cylinder, which activated and came down on the tip of his right thumb, resulting in a partial amputation without bone loss.

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