# Amputations involving bone loss at Techo-Bloc Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2024098551` · 9/13/2024 · PEN ARGYL, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Dies, molds, patterns
## Employer
- **Name:** Techo-Bloc Incorporated
- **Location:** 852 Pennsylvania Ave, PEN ARGYL, PENNSYLVANIA, 18072
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making an adjustment under an elevated 5000-pound mold on a press when the mold was lowered onto their right hand, crushing their thumb. The thumb was medically amputated at the hospital.

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