# Amputations involving bone loss at L&R Industries - Mechanical Steel Tube Division
> OSHA SIR `2025021435` · 2/13/2025 · MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** L&R Industries - Mechanical Steel Tube Division
- **Location:** Business U.S. Hwy 60 Business, MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI, 65711
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a fixed blade on a scarfing machine and could not get the bit to seat in the correct position. While checking for an obstruction, his middle finger contacted an adjacent piece of machinery, a chopper, that amputated his middle fingertip just behind the nailbed.

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