# Amputations involving bone loss at Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054751` · 5/20/2025 · MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Fans, blowers wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
- **Secondary source:** Other handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwestern Pet Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 617 S D Street, MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS, 61462
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 20, 2025, an employee was in a one-person aerial lift to take an environmental swab near an exhaust fan mounted in an exterior wall approximately 15 feet high. As they were taking the sample, the swab was pulled into the fan along with the employee's right hand, resulting in amputations of the thumb and the index and middle fingers.

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