# Amputations involving bone loss at Dutch Gold Honey, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032498` · 3/17/2025 · LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Elevators, hoists, lifts  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Dutch Gold Honey, Inc.
- **Location:** 2220 Dutch Gold Drive, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17601
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A hoist used for filter bags was doubled over itself and an employee was untwisting/untangling its cable. The hoist moved up instead of down when activated, due to the bags, and caught the employee's left middle finger. The employee sustained the amputation of about   inch of the fingertip.

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