# Amputations involving bone loss at 3M Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021756` · 2/26/2024 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** 3M Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 State Docks Road, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 325220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting to collect edge trim when their right middle and ring fingers came into contact with a shear slitter blade. Half of the ring finger was nearly amputated, and half of the middle finger was amputated.

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