# Amputations involving bone loss at Wisconsin Spice, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088055` · 8/14/2025 · BERLIN, 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:** Pumps  except oil well
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Wisconsin Spice, Inc.
- **Location:** 478 South Industrial Park Road, BERLIN, WISCONSIN, 54923
- **NAICS:** 311941
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 14, 2025, an employee was priming a pump that was failing to pump mustard. The employee took a water hose and started water into the pump. The employee's finger slipped off the nozzle of the hose and came into contact with the pump's impellers, causing the employee to suffer an amputation to the right index finger at the first knuckle.

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