# Amputations involving bone loss at Lapham-Hickey Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20241110370` · 11/6/2024 · BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 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:** Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Lapham-Hickey Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 5500 West 73rd Street, BEDFORD PARK, ILLINOIS, 60638
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was brushing something off a metal coil at the recoiler of a slitter machine. His glove was caught and pulled into a coil separator, and the separator disk amputated his right little finger. 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*