# Other or multiple types of burns  degree unspecified at U.S. Postal Service
> OSHA SIR `2024010513` · 1/17/2024 · FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Other or multiple types of burns  degree unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Postal Service
- **Location:** 2507 Downing Rd, FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, 28312
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee and co-workers were on the upper level of a machine while observing and listening for loud/worn rollers in the machine. After identifying the noisy bearing, the employee stepped away from the machine and her hand touched the incline belt. The belt pulled her hand into the idler roller, causing it to get wedged between the roller and the incline belt. The belt was stopped and the employee's hand was worked out from the roller. The employee suffered a hand injury, including friction burns, that required hospitalization.

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