# Amputations at Belden Brick Co.
> OSHA SIR `2023098138` · 9/5/2023 · SUGARCREEK, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Belden Brick Co.
- **Location:** 475 Dover Road NW, SUGARCREEK, OHIO, 44681
- **NAICS:** 327120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packaging bricks. As they were pulling a pallet on a monorail system, the employee's finger was run over by a pallet. Their fingertip was amputated.

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