# Amputations involving bone loss at Orion Ropeworks, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20241211125` · 12/2/2024 · WINSLOW, MAINE
## 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:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Orion Ropeworks, Inc.
- **Location:** 953 Benton Avenue, WINSLOW, MAINE, 04901
- **NAICS:** 314991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manufacturing fiber on an extruder machine when fiber became tangled in the machine. The employee went to clear the tangle when his left middle finger became caught in the fiber. The bone was dislocated from the first knuckle, resulting in a medical amputation.

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