# Amputations involving bone loss at Trinity Ag, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043656` · 4/26/2024 · ATHOL, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Silo, grain bin or elevator interiors
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Trinity Ag, LLC
- **Location:** 205 North Railway Avenue, ATHOL, KANSAS, 66932
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out the grain bin with a push broom and a scoop shovel from inside the bin. He stepped in a hole where his leg contacted a steel grain auger screw, resulting in an amputation to his right lower leg just above the ankle.

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