# Amputations involving bone loss at Marathon Cheese Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024098256` · 9/5/2024 · MEDFORD, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Marathon Cheese Corporation
- **Location:** 1000 PROGRESSIVE AVE, MEDFORD, WISCONSIN, 54451
- **NAICS:** 424430
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing cheese product from the top of a conveyor belt. His right ring finger got pulled under the metal product guide rail at the edge of the conveyor and was pinched between the conveyor and the guide rail. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip between the first knuckle and the fingernail.

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