# Amputations involving bone loss at Gates Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20241010115` · 10/30/2024 · SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Bending, crimping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Gates Corporation
- **Location:** 1801 N. Lincoln St., SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 72761
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a mandrel shaft with an emery cloth when their glove became caught on the rotating shaft. Their right hand was pulled in with the glove and their thumb was amputated.

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