# Amputations at Mount Sinai Hospital
> OSHA SIR `20191213141` · 12/23/2019 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mount Sinai Hospital
- **Location:** One Gustave J Levy Place, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10029
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing a belt replacement on a fan motor for the AC-1 unit. The employee had locked out the power source(s) to the fan motor, loosened the motor / tension on the belts, and replaced the belt when the pulley "free-wheeled." Her fingertip was caught between the belt and the pulley, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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