# Amputations at Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies/AERT
> OSHA SIR `2022065085` · 6/13/2022 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies/AERT
- **Location:** 810 JEFFERSON, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72764
- **NAICS:** 321219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was cleaning debris on a conveyor belt with his left hand when the belt caught his glove and pulled his index finger into the conveyor, resulting in an amputation.

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