# Amputations involving bone loss at Johnsonville Sausage LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025043610` · 4/17/2025 · SHEBOYGAN FALLS, 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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Johnsonville Sausage LLC
- **Location:** W4315 County Road JM, SHEBOYGAN FALLS, WISCONSIN, 53085
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a packaging machine when a plastic ribbon on the packaging film broke. The employee went to retrieve the broken ribbon when the machine cycled and contacted their right hand, resulting in amputation of the third and fourth fingers on the right hand. 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*