# Amputations involving bone loss at Carborundum Grinding Wheel Company
> OSHA SIR `2024065776` · 6/27/2024 · LOGAN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Carborundum Grinding Wheel Company
- **Location:** 1011 East Front Street, LOGAN, OHIO, 43138
- **NAICS:** 333515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an unguarded hydraulic press. When the employee placed his hand inside the press to remove one of the molds, the employee's fingers on his right hand were caught between the mold and the top plate of the press. The employee was hospitalized, and four fingers were surgically amputated.

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