# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Fastenal Company
> OSHA SIR `2024032101` · 3/7/2024 · EDWARDSVILLE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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 belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Clothing
## Employer
- **Name:** Fastenal Company
- **Location:** 9911 Woodend Rd, EDWARDSVILLE, KANSAS, 66111
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing rollers on a conveyor when his shirt sleeve was caught by a chain and it pulled his right hand into the chain and sprocket, resulting in a laceration to the hand and amputations to the index and middle fingers.

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