# Amputations involving bone loss at Horizons Systems
> OSHA SIR `2024054554` · 5/23/2024 · PARSONS, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Horizons Systems
- **Location:** 2601 Flynn Dr, PARSONS, KANSAS, 67357
- **NAICS:** 333922
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing production work on a rolling machine when their left glove got caught in the machine. The employee's left hand and wrist were crushed, leading to surgical amputation of all four fingers and part of the thumb. The machine was not guarded at the point of operation.

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