# Amputations involving bone loss at Closed Loop Plastic Recycling
> OSHA SIR `2024076684` · 7/23/2024 · FOSTORIA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall to lower level resulting in exposure or contact  unspecified
- **Source:** Portable ladders and stairs  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Closed Loop Plastic Recycling
- **Location:** 1150 State Street, FOSTORIA, OHIO, 44830
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 23, 2024, around 12:00 PM, an employee was on a ladder trying to remove a jam from the rolling blades on a machine. The employee fell off the ladder and their left foot was wedged in the rolling blades resulting in amputation of the middle toe. The blades were not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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