# Amputations at Niagara Bottling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032666` · 3/23/2017 · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Niagara Bottling, LLC
- **Location:** 7561 INDUSTRIAL BLVD, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18106
- **NAICS:** 312112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance and degreasing near the chain and sprocket of a conveyor belt when the conveyor began running. The employee's right middle fingertip was then caught and amputated in the ingoing nip point of the chain and sprocket, which were unguarded at the time.

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