# Amputations involving bone loss at Ace Hardware Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025077260` · 7/25/2025 · LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ace Hardware Corporation
- **Location:** 500 Fanta Reed Place, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, 54603
- **NAICS:** 444130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was aligning a shipping offload conveyor. A component of the machine caught the employee's left middle finger, amputating it above the second knuckle.

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