# Amputations involving bone loss at Alliance Laundry Systems LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025077274` · 7/25/2025 · RIPON, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Welding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Alliance Laundry Systems LLC
- **Location:** 221 Shepard Street, RIPON, WISCONSIN, 54971
- **NAICS:** 333312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a copper ring on a press welder. The machine was actuated, and the employee's left thumb was pinched between its ring and its nipple. The thumb tip was amputated between the nail and the first knuckle.

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