# Amputations at Peller & Laundry Machinery Sales Co, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022020950` · 2/1/2022 · LIBERTY HILL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Peller & Laundry Machinery Sales Co, Inc.
- **Location:** 10355 W. State Highway 29, LIBERTY HILL, TEXAS, 78642
- **NAICS:** 423850
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at an automated towel facility. As the employee was performing maintenance on a small piece towel folder, his right hand was crushed in a moving drive chain, resulting in amputation of his little finger.

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