# Amputations involving bone loss at Quikrete Company
> OSHA SIR `2024054218` · 5/13/2024 · ELBURN, 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Quikrete Company
- **Location:** 1 S. 950 S. Lorang Road, ELBURN, ILLINOIS, 60119
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out the bucket line machine for an auger change when the auger blade contacted his left hand and amputated the index, middle, and ring fingers.

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