# Amputations involving bone loss at Messer Truck Equipment
> OSHA SIR `2025021928` · 2/27/2025 · WESTBROOK, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Messer Truck Equipment
- **Location:** 170 Warren Avenue, WESTBROOK, MAINE, 04092
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting metal with a ironworker machine. The material shifted and the employee went to straighten it. His right index finger was crushed beneath the material, resulting in a partial amputation.

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