# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
> OSHA SIR `2025088633` · 8/28/2025 · FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Medical, dental, and surgical instruments and equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Location:** 3551 Roger Brooke Dr., FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS, 78234
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a histology block with a microtome. The microtome amputated the tip of the employee's thumb, halfway through the nailbed. There was no damage to bone.

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