# Amputations involving bone loss at GA Welding and Demolition
> OSHA SIR `2024109366` · 10/7/2024 · BRUSH, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** GA Welding and Demolition
- **Location:** 906 Edison Street, BRUSH, COLORADO, 80723
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a metal plate with a mill machine and making adjustments to the plate when his right index finger was crushed between the machine and the guard. The employee sustained an amputation of the finger.

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