# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Nortera Foods USA Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025077424` · 7/29/2025 · FAIRWATER, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Special process machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Nortera Foods USA Inc.
- **Location:** 496 Main Street, FAIRWATER, WISCONSIN, 53931
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 29, 2025, an employee was reinstalling a chute/guard that had been removed for cleaning. His hand slipped into a rotating gump feeder and the tip of his left thumb was partially amputated.

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