# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at John Crane, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021149` · 2/6/2024 · CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Special process machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** John Crane, Inc.
- **Location:** 29 Burndett Drive, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS, 60012
- **NAICS:** 339991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a powder dispenser machine used to fill carbon tubes. The machine was not dispensing powder; the employee was investigating a possible blockage in the hopper when a rotating part in the machine caught his left hand. He suffered partial amputations to two fingers.

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