# Amputations at Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20221110126` · 11/17/2022 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Chocolate Delivery Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 1800 Elmwood Avenue, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14207
- **NAICS:** 311351
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a co-worker were cleaning a packing machine. The employee was putting a bucket on the conveyor belt when the belt advanced and the employee's right index finger was caught in a pinch point, 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*