# Amputations involving bone loss at Central Florida Custom Trailers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024031997` · 3/5/2024 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Florida Custom Trailers, Inc.
- **Location:** 2136 East 4th Street, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32824
- **NAICS:** 336214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a disc grinder on a part when the part got caught between the guard and the grinder. His thumb got pulled in between the part and the grinder crushing and amputating it.

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