# Amputations involving bone loss at Philadelphia Macaroni Company
> OSHA SIR `2024032104` · 3/7/2024 · GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Philadelphia Macaroni Company
- **Location:** 1801 North 36th Street, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, 58203
- **NAICS:** 311823
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a palletizer when their right thumb was amputated by the palletizer plate.

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