# Amputations involving bone loss at Ohio Valley Electric Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025021449` · 2/13/2025 · CHESHIRE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Clothing
## Employer
- **Name:** Ohio Valley Electric Corporation
- **Location:** 5758 State Route 7 North, CHESHIRE, OHIO, 45620
- **NAICS:** 221112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were troubleshooting the gypsum conveyors. An employee's clothes got caught in the machine, resulting in amputation of their left arm at the shoulder and amputation of part of their left ear.

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