# Amputations at Becton, Dickinson and Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098401` · 9/12/2023 · BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Becton, Dickinson and Company
- **Location:** 150 S. 1st Ave., BROKEN BOW, NEBRASKA, 68822
- **NAICS:** 339112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been operating a machine. They were testing the belt tension beneath the machine when their left thumb became caught between the belts and pulleys of the machine. The employee sustained a distal thumb amputation.

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