# Amputations involving bone loss at US Packaging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024076574` · 7/19/2024 · ELKHORN, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** US Packaging, LLC
- **Location:** 401 East Morrissey Drive, ELKHORN, WISCONSIN, 53121
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning around a pouching machine when their right index finger was caught in the seal bar and amputated.

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