# Amputations at Mesa Energy Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109621` · 10/18/2023 · IONE, CALIFORNIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Mesa Energy Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 4640 Coalmine Rd, IONE, CALIFORNIA, 95640
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was performing routine maintenance tasks on a customer's rooftop HVAC unit. The employee was manually inspecting the belts when his glove was caught by the belt. His finger was then pinched between the belt and a sheave and his left little finger was amputated.

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