# Amputations involving bone loss at ESSMetron
> OSHA SIR `2024087166` · 8/6/2024 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **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:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** ESSMetron
- **Location:** 1505 West 3rd Ave., DENVER, COLORADO, 80223
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was completing multiple bends on a piece of galvanized steel (~3-4 feet long and 5-inches wide) using a brake press when their thumb was caught between the steel and the ram/punch and die of the brake press. The employee sustained an amputation of their right thumb.

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