# Amputations involving bone loss at Prysmian Group Specialty Cables LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024032802` · 3/29/2024 · TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Prysmian Group Specialty Cables LLC
- **Location:** 656 Joseph E. Warner Blvd., TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02780
- **NAICS:** 335921
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the gear pump in the front of the compound mixing machine when his left hand was caught in the turning gears causing an amputation to his left index finger below the fingernail at the distal phalange.

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