# Amputations involving bone loss at Illuminate USA
> OSHA SIR `2025088560` · 8/27/2025 · PATASKALA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Illuminate USA
- **Location:** 3600 Etna Parkway, PATASKALA, OHIO, 43062
- **NAICS:** 221114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to straighten a solar panel by reaching into the unguarded rotating section of the conveyor when their right thumb got caught in the conveyor, resulting in amputation of their right thumb.

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