# Amputations involving bone loss at Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025087794` · 8/7/2025 · FOLEY, ALABAMA
## 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:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
- **Location:** 518 South Bay St, FOLEY, ALABAMA, 36535
- **NAICS:** 325991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to unclog a feeder that feeds raw material into an extruder to make plastic/polymer. The slide gate closed on his right hand, amputating three fingers between the first and second knuckles as well as cutting the thumb tip.

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