# Avulsions, enucleations at SSI Sintered Specialties, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020021897` · 2/26/2020 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Threading and tapping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** SSI Sintered Specialties, LLC
- **Location:** 3330 PALMER DR, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53546
- **NAICS:** 334519
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jammed part in a tapper machine. The employee's right index fingertip got caught in the jaws of the tapper machine as they closed. When the employee pulled their finger back, their fingertip remained in the jaws and was avulsed, and the bone of the fingertip was fractured. At the time of the incident, the machine was in manual mode.

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