# Amputations involving bone loss at Cleveland Steel Container Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024010065` · 1/3/2024 · QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Cleveland Steel Container Corporation
- **Location:** 350 East Mill Street, QUAKERTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18951
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning machinery when his right hand was caught in the chain and sprocket. His little finger was amputated at the last joint, and his ring and middle fingers were each amputated at the middle joint.

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