# Amputations involving bone loss at Nasoya Foods USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241211952` · 12/30/2024 · AYER, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Nasoya Foods USA, LLC
- **Location:** One New England Way, AYER, MASSACHUSETTS, 01432
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a packaging machine when they sustained a partial thumb amputation (right thumb at the knuckle) when the cutter engaged. Lock out/tag out procedures were not used.

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