# Amputations involving bone loss at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Agriculture Marketing Service - Cotton Classing Off
> OSHA SIR `2025021858` · 2/26/2025 · VISALIA, CALIFORNIA
## 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:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Agriculture Marketing Service - Cotton Classing Off
- **Location:** 7100 W Sunnyview Ave, VISALIA, CALIFORNIA, 93291
- **NAICS:** 115114
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee had been using an air gun to blow cotton off the moving parts inside of the length/strength cabinet. The employee went to grab some cotton that was still stuck on the length/strength breaker bracket (above the rear jaw cylinder) when their left fourth finger became pinched. The employee sustained an amputation through the distal phalanx.

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