# Amputations involving bone loss at Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025088378` · 8/22/2025 · WAVERLY, NEW YORK
## 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:** Grinders, abraders
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc
- **Location:** 1 William Donnelly Pkwy, WAVERLY, NEW YORK, 14892
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 8/22/2025, an employee was working to clear a grinder jam. The employee was using a "no-touch tool" to rotate the drum of the grinder. He slipped forward and his right hand contacted a pinch point between the backside of the blade and the grinder housing. The employee's right middle fingertip was partially amputated with bone loss.

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