# Amputations involving bone loss at Wausau Coated Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043608` · 4/17/2025 · WAUSAU, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Other special process machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Wausau Coated Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 7801 Stewart Avenue, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, 54401
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing something from the rollers of the coating machine using a rag. The rag and the employee's fingers were pulled into the rollers, resulting in amputation of the middle, ring, and little fingers on their right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

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