# Amputations involving bone loss at Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Cedar, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098792` · 9/20/2024 · MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Cedar, Inc.
- **Location:** 2321 Stout Road, MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN, 54751
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 20, 2024, an employee was stopping a motor on an air handler to replace the belt when his right hand got caught between the belt and pulley, resulting in amputations of the index, middle, and ring fingers at or above the first knuckles.

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