# Amputations involving bone loss at Blue Triton Brands
> OSHA SIR `2024076669` · 7/23/2024 · POLAND SPRING, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **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:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Triton Brands
- **Location:** 109 Poland Spring Drive, POLAND SPRING, MAINE, 04274
- **NAICS:** 312112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting a bottle machine because the nozzle was stuck in the up position. The employee went to check for pre-blow air and the nozzle dropped back down to its starting position, catching his right index fingertip against the mold base. The employee sustained a fingertip amputation to the first digit.

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