# Amputations involving bone loss at Dario's Pallets, Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2024087382` · 8/12/2024 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Boring, reaming, routing, notching machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Dario's Pallets, Corp.
- **Location:** 339 N. California Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60612
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding 2 x 4 wood into a notching machine when he noticed that the wood was broken and began pulling it out. His glove was pulled into the machine toward the blades, resulting in the amputation of all five digits of his right hand.

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