# Amputations involving bone loss at Aspen Baking Company
> OSHA SIR `2024043688` · 4/28/2024 · DENVER, COLORADO
## 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:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Aspen Baking Company
- **Location:** 8035 East 40th Avenue, DENVER, COLORADO, 80207
- **NAICS:** 311811
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While the dough divider rounder machine was in operation, an employee was feeding dough through a missing guarding window. The folding mechanism of the machine caught the employee's hand, resulting in amputation of the top joint of the employee's right middle finger.

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