# Amputations at Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023109888` · 10/26/2023 · GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Air conditioning units
## Employer
- **Name:** Hackensack Meridian Health Hospitals Corporation
- **Location:** 1 bay ave, GLEN RIDGE, NEW JERSEY, 07028
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a fanbelt on an AC unit when the distal part of the third and fourth digits on their left hand were amputated by the belt.

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