# Amputations involving bone loss at E & H Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025010590` · 1/17/2025 · MIDLAND CITY, ALABAMA
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** E & H Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 3635 Hwy 134 W, MIDLAND CITY, ALABAMA, 36350
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing the sprocket on an infeed rolling bed chain for a CNC machine. He placed a cotter pin on the chain when the machine was activated and his right hand was caught in the infeed bed, resulting in the amputation of three fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

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