# Amputations involving bone loss at Alabama Power Co
> OSHA SIR `2024076541` · 7/18/2024 · CALERA, ALABAMA
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Power Co
- **Location:** 744 County Road 87, CALERA, ALABAMA, 35040
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was vacuuming a rotary valve system. Believing that a piece of the vacuum had fallen off into the rotary valve, he was retrieving the piece when the system actuated and amputated his left middle finger.

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