# Amputations involving bone loss at Western Bee Supplies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054571` · 5/24/2024 · POLSON, MONTANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Planing mills
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Bee Supplies, Inc.
- **Location:** 5 9th Avenue East, POLSON, MONTANA, 59860
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing a quality check on the sizer machine after finishing a set up when some wood got stuck. His thumb also got stuck and he sustained an amputation of the right thumb tip.

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