# Amputations involving bone loss at Merrill Tool and Water Jet, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043504` · 4/22/2024 · MERRILL, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Stationary sawing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Merrill Tool and Water Jet, LLC
- **Location:** 202 South Thomas Street, MERRILL, WISCONSIN, 54452
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning metal chips from a saw enclosure using a wet/dry vacuum when their right hand made contact with the rotating blade, resulting in the amputation of the index and middle fingers to the most proximal knuckle to the hand.

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