# Amputations at Retail Distribution East LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019032714` · 3/14/2019 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Retail Distribution East LLC
- **Location:** 600 Oadkridge Road, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a motorized boom conveyor used to load trailers. The employee used an open end wrench as a pry tool in an attempt to correct the tracking of the conveyor belt near the end pulley. When the unit was actuated to start to the re-track process, the wrench moved and pinched the employee's right pinky finger against a hard metal surface, amputating the finger from the first joint.

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