# Amputations involving bone loss at Dadeville Pole Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021872` · 2/29/2024 · DADEVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Log processing machinery
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Dadeville Pole Company, LLC
- **Location:** 1022 Thweatt Industrial Boulevard, DADEVILLE, ALABAMA, 36853
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was greasing the log chain while walking on top of the logs. When the employee got to the log peeler, a sensor was triggered causing the equipment to move and amputate the employee's lower right leg. The equipment was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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