# Amputations involving bone loss at Sumitomo Bakelite North America
> OSHA SIR `2024098803` · 9/20/2024 · KENTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Sumitomo Bakelite North America
- **Location:** 13717 US HWY. 68 S, KENTON, OHIO, 43326
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a belt-driven pack out machine and was checking to see if the resin was plugging up the system. The employee's left hand got caught in the belt and pulley, resulting in fractures to all five fingers and an amputation of the ring finger at the second knuckle. The machine 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*