# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Prent Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025043617` · 4/18/2025 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Prent Corporation
- **Location:** 2225 Kennedy Road, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53545
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a rag to wipe grease off a chain on a thermal forming machine. The rag caught on a sprocket and pulled the employee's left hand into a pinch point, resulting in a soft tissue avulsion of the little fingertip and fractures in the index and ringer fingers. The machine was in operation at the time of the incident.

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