# Amputations at Rose Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2023098935` · 9/27/2023 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Rose Medical Center
- **Location:** 4567 East 9th Avenue, DENVER, COLORADO, 80220
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the end unit handle belt on an air handler unit.  His glove was caught in the belt, which resulted in an amputation through the tuft of the distal phalanx of the fifth finger.

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