# Amputations at Heritage Bag
> OSHA SIR `2020065586` · 6/15/2020 · ROANOKE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Heritage Bag
- **Location:** 501 Gateway Parkway, ROANOKE, TEXAS, 76262
- **NAICS:** 322220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing blades in a bag machine. While reaching to orient the new blade assembly with both hands, his left-hand glove was pulled under the drive belt guard and into the drive belt resulting in amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.

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