# Amputations involving bone loss at Orion Engineered Carbons LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241211926` · 12/29/2024 · BORGER, TEXAS
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Orion Engineered Carbons LLC
- **Location:** 9440 Farm to Market Road 1559, BORGER, TEXAS, 79007
- **NAICS:** 335991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was accessing a rotary airlock to clean it out when their fingers were caught by the star valve as it was rotating. The employee sustained amputations of their left middle and ring fingers.

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