# Amputations involving bone loss at ALFAGOMMA AURORA TF LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054198` · 5/13/2024 · BATAVIA, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Bending, crimping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** ALFAGOMMA AURORA TF LLC
- **Location:** 950 Douglas Road, BATAVIA, ILLINOIS, 60510
- **NAICS:** 332912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was retooling a pipe bending machine while it was energized when the machine clamp function activated. Their left hand was caught as the machine's radius die closed on the clamp and it crushed his left ring finger, resulting in medical amputation to the second knuckle.

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