# Amputations at United Parcel Service Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20231110444` · 11/13/2023 · LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service Inc.
- **Location:** 49-10 27th Street, LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, 11101
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting an extendable conveyor belt when his left ring finger got caught under a transfer plate, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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