# Amputations involving bone loss at CKS Packaging
> OSHA SIR `2024054711` · 5/29/2024 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** CKS Packaging
- **Location:** 4000 NE Kimball Drive, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64161
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting parisons on a blow mold machine. They noticed a bottle stuck in the mold and reached to push it out when the molds closed on their left hand. The employee sustained amputations of the thumb and the index, middle, and ring fingers. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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