# Amputations involving bone loss at Viterra USA Grain, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025010787` · 1/24/2025 · CACTUS, 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:** Grain, forage, feed processing and handling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Viterra USA Grain, LLC
- **Location:** 11997 State Highway 287, CACTUS, TEXAS, 79013
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a metal rod that was approximately 1-2 feet long to poke upward toward the product and unplug a bin that was plugged. The gate under the bin is controlled by the neighboring facility, which closed the gate while the rod was still inside it. The rod was pushed against the employee's finger, trapping it against an adjacent wall and resulting in a partial amputation through the phalanx.

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