# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Recreational Equipment, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021635` · 2/21/2024 · BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Recreational Equipment, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 Country Ridge Road, BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, 15522
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was removing a guard on the chain and sprocket drive of a conveyor system when their hand slipped and was pulled into an in-running nip point. Multiple fingers on the employee's right hand were crushed. The employee sustained amputations to his thumb, index, and little fingers on his right hand. The ring finger was dislocated.

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