# Amputations at HEB Distribution Center
> OSHA SIR `2023098789` · 9/23/2023 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Hoses
## Employer
- **Name:** HEB Distribution Center
- **Location:** 4710 N PanAm Expressway, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78218
- **NAICS:** 493120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a conveyor with an air hose and water when the end of the air hose got caught in the belt, pinning his right thumb between the hose and drying window and resulting in amputation.

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