# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Quality Packaging
> OSHA SIR `2024010943` · 1/31/2024 · OLATHE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Packaging
- **Location:** 16231 S Lone Elm Road, OLATHE, KANSAS, 66062
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was removing grease from inside an incline conveyor system. A chain from the system wrapped around four fingers on the employee's gloved right hand and amputated the index fingertip and crushed the other three fingers.

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