# Amputations involving bone loss at TANGENT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025021507` · 2/15/2025 · AURORA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object held or wielded by person
- **Source:** Other hammers, mallets
- **Secondary source:** Co-worker, supervisor  current
## Employer
- **Name:** TANGENT TECHNOLOGIES LLC
- **Location:** 1001 Sullivan Rd., AURORA, ILLINOIS, 60506
- **NAICS:** 326121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was holding plastic lumber material so that another employee could strike the lumber to push it back into the machine. The injured employee was struck by the plastic lumber hammer, resulting in lacerations and a partial fingertip amputation of their left index finger through the phalanx.

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