# Amputations involving bone loss at Cabot Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025054243` · 5/6/2025 · FRANKLIN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **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:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Cabot Corporation
- **Location:** 272 Cabot Canal Plant Lane, FRANKLIN, LOUISIANA, 70538
- **NAICS:** 335991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in the warehouse helping to troubleshoot a bagging machine. The machine's anvil activated and the employee's left middle finger was crushed by the bottom sealing bar. The fingertip was medically amputated at the last joint.

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