# Amputations involving bone loss at WAM USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024032602` · 3/22/2024 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## 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:** Lathes
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** WAM USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 1300 Triad Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76131
- **NAICS:** 333922
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding down a shaft on a lathe machine when his gloves got caught on the part he was sanding pulling his right hand into the machine and amputating his little finger.

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