# Amputations involving bone loss at Cummins Southern Plains LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024010322` · 1/12/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Generators
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Cummins Southern Plains LLC
- **Location:** Houston Museum of Natural Science, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77030
- **NAICS:** 811219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was testing an emergency backup generator. As he tried to remove an absorbent pad (which had been laid down to keep oil from touching the ground), the generator's fan sucked in his right forearm. The forearm was amputated by the fan blades.

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