# Amputations involving bone loss at Alpha Baking Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043569` · 4/16/2025 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Baking Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 5001 W. Polk Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60644
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A mechanic was adjusting the timing on a conveyor and was reinstalling the machine guard when their left index finger got caught on the chain and sprocket and was partially amputated with bone loss.

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