# Amputations at Progressive Nutrition LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065403` · 6/10/2020 · NORFOLK, NEBRASKA
## 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
## Employer
- **Name:** Progressive Nutrition LLC
- **Location:** 1500 E. Omaha Avenue, NORFOLK, NEBRASKA, 68701
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to restart a conveyor belt that would not run. The employee was checking the tension on the motor belt when the auger motor started running, causing an amputation of his left thumb above the first joint.

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