# Amputations involving bone loss at Saputo Cheese USA Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054697` · 5/19/2025 · ALMENA, 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:** Special process machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Saputo Cheese USA Inc.
- **Location:** 1052 6th Street, ALMENA, WISCONSIN, 54805
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring a filling tower auger when it became clogged with a cheese curd. The employee shut off the clogged auger and reached in the tower to clear the blockage. The rotating auger caused amputations to their right index and middle fingers and partial amputation of the right ring finger as well as other injuries to their right hand. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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