# Amputations involving bone loss at Centre Concrete Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043727` · 4/22/2025 · STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Centre Concrete Company
- **Location:** 629 East Rolling Ridge Drive, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16803
- **NAICS:** 327320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been loading the concrete plant and prepping the plant for the morning's work. The employee was using a hammer to clean the lower  deadman  slack pulley on a conveyor belt. The employee's right hand became caught in the running conveyor system and was crushed, resulting in amputation of the ring finger to the second knuckle and an amputation of the thumb, as well as lacerations to the finger and thumb. The employee required surgery.

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