# Amputations involving bone loss at NIBCO INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025088106` · 8/14/2025 · BLYTHEVILLE, ARKANSAS
## 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  unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** NIBCO INC.
- **Location:** 301 S. Promise Land Rd., BLYTHEVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72315
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's hand was caught in a pinch point in the area of a conveyor for a flask running out of a foundry molding machine. The employee's ring finger was crushed and partially amputated at the base.

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