# Amputations involving bone loss at Prolec GE USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043628` · 4/25/2024 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stationary drills, milling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Prolec GE USA, LLC
- **Location:** 7000 West Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71129
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving material by hand to be staged for a drill press operator when the machine contacted his right hand. He sustained a laceration to the ring finger, a degloving of the little finger, and an amputation of the thumb that required reattachment surgery.

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