# Amputations at Cox Wholesale Seafood, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020043693` · 4/21/2020 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Augers, plumbing snakes-powered
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Cox Wholesale Seafood, LLC
- **Location:** 5806 North Occident Street, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33614
- **NAICS:** 453998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a motorized drain auger to unclog a machine. A spinning spiral mechanism (which turned the auger) caught his thick leather glove and cut off the tip of his right ring finger.

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