# Amputations involving bone loss at Willert Home Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043258` · 4/8/2025 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Willert Home Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 4044 Park Avenue, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
- **NAICS:** 339999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out a guide area where a continuous log of extruded toilet bowl cleaner was being cut into individual cakes. He had just cleared the blockage at the cutter's point of operation when the cutter rotated and struck his left index finger, resulting in a partial amputation through the bone. The machine was guarded at the time.

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