# Amputations involving bone loss at Performance Plastics, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2025032137` · 3/5/2025 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## 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:** Other miscellaneous machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Fan and turbine parts
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Plastics, LTD
- **Location:** 4435 Brownway Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45209
- **NAICS:** 334613
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out a hopper filter when their index finger contacted the fan blade of the vacuum loader motor. The employee sustained an amputation of the first knuckle of the finger.

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