# Amputations at Greatwide Distribution Logistics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181212577` · 12/7/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Greatwide Distribution Logistics, LLC
- **Location:** 225 Portwall Suite 300, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to clear a piece of trash from a roller on a pallet sorting machine. The roller control actuated causing a piece of plastic trash to wrap around the top part of the employee's left ring finger and pinch it. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the left ring finger just below the nail bed. The roller was not guarded at the time.

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