# Amputations at Congoleum Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022032252` · 3/12/2022 · TRAINER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** Congoleum Corporation
- **Location:** 4401 RIDGE ROAD, TRAINER, PENNSYLVANIA, 19061
- **NAICS:** 326192
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading bag resins onto a bag dumping station and wrapping/bundling up empty bags for disposal. The employee was dislodging a broken piece of wood that jammed in the conveyor's chain and sprocket when their gloved hand was caught in the conveyor, resulting in a finger amputation.

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