# Amputations involving bone loss at Plymouth Tube Company
> OSHA SIR `2024109282` · 10/4/2024 · EAST TROY, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Plymouth Tube Company
- **Location:** 2056 Young Street, EAST TROY, WISCONSIN, 53120
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a die with a pry bar during a die change on a pointer machine. The machine cycled and the die crushed their left hand fingers. The employee sustained an amputation to their middle finger, a partial amputation to their ring finger, and a crushed index finger.

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