# Amputations involving bone loss at Reifel Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021067` · 2/3/2025 · PIONEER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery
- **Source:** Material handling and warehousing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Reifel Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 201 Ohio Street, PIONEER, OHIO, 43554
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was raking screws at the transfer cart from the paint bath to the oven when a screw fell on the ground. While the employee was picking up the screw, an automated transfer cart moved and amputated their left little finger to the first knuckle.

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