# Amputations involving bone loss at Esschem
> OSHA SIR `2025088081` · 8/14/2025 · LINWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Fan and turbine parts
## Employer
- **Name:** Esschem
- **Location:** 4000 Columbia Avenue, LINWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, 19061
- **NAICS:** 339114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam inside a polymer drying machine. The dryer fan caught the employee's hand and amputated three fingers, two above the fingernail and one above the knuckle.

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