# Amputations involving bone loss at Costco Wholesale Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20241211154` · 12/3/2024 · MORRIS, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Material handling and warehousing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Costco Wholesale Corporation
- **Location:** 7320 Lisbon Rd, MORRIS, ILLINOIS, 60450
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a de-boxer machine that scores boxes to make them easy to open. The employee sustained a partial transphalangeal amputation to a finger.

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