# Amputations at DeBra-Kuempel
> OSHA SIR `2021064572` · 6/5/2021 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** DeBra-Kuempel
- **Location:** 585 Cleveland Ave, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43215
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing the four belt blower motor of an air handling unit. The belts rotated and the employee's left index finger was caught in the unit resulting in an amputation to the finger.

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