# Amputations involving bone loss at Supreme Rice, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098113` · 9/1/2024 · CROWLEY, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Supreme Rice, LLC
- **Location:** 530 West Mill Street, CROWLEY, LOUISIANA, 70526
- **NAICS:** 311423
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unclogging a pearler machine when the blade amputated their right thumb. The machine was running and was unguarded at the time.

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