# Amputations at Vitro Flat Glass, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020098417` · 9/3/2020 · COCHRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vitro Flat Glass, LLC
- **Location:** 5123 Victory Blvd., COCHRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 16314
- **NAICS:** 327211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance work to change/inspect a belt on a blower motor. The employee was removing/inspecting the v-belt from a motor/fan drive sheave and as he was rolling the belt off the sheave his left ring finger got caught between the belt and the sheave 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*