# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Bell and Howell, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021111` · 2/5/2024 · MADISON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Mailing and metering equipment
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Bell and Howell, LLC
- **Location:** 5042 Tradewinds Parkway, MADISON, WISCONSIN, 53718
- **NAICS:** 333318
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting a drive belt on a mail processing machine. When the employee tried to cycle the machine by hand, it started up. The employee's left hand came into contact with the belt, which pulled the employee's fingers into the belt and pulley. The employee suffered an amputation to the left little fingertip (diagonally across the nail), as well as lacerations to three other fingers that required stitches.

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