# Amputations involving bone loss at KFH Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043367` · 4/10/2025 · DOTHAN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** KFH Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 2926 Columbia HWY, DOTHAN, ALABAMA, 36301
- **NAICS:** 314999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was winding a bobbin on a bobbin-winding machine when the string became entangled. While the employee was untangling it with scissors, the string caught her finger, wrapped around it tightly, and amputated it at the first joint. 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*