# Amputations involving bone loss at Surface Engineering & Alloy Company, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024064949` · 6/5/2024 · SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Transmissions, gears
## Employer
- **Name:** Surface Engineering & Alloy Company, Inc
- **Location:** 2895 47th Avenue North, SAINT PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, 33714
- **NAICS:** 541330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a machine to test it. His right thumb was caught in a gear and was amputated.

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