# Amputations involving bone loss at Ira Middleswarth & Son Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032098` · 3/7/2024 · MIDDLEBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ira Middleswarth & Son Inc.
- **Location:** 250 Furnace Rd., MIDDLEBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17842
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam on a packaging machine when her right index finger contacted a moving belt on the machine, resulting in an amputation of the finger.

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