# Amputations involving bone loss at Titan Tire Corporation of Freeport
> OSHA SIR `2025054407` · 5/9/2025 · FREEPORT, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Titan Tire Corporation of Freeport
- **Location:** 3769 RT. 20 EAST, FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, 61032
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the bladder on a hydraulic press. As he lowered the bladder, his left foot was pinned between its bottom ring and the bottom mold of the press. The second toe on the foot was amputated.

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