# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Dairy Farmers of America
> OSHA SIR `2024032103` · 3/7/2024 · MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Dairy Farmers of America
- **Location:** 4825 Gettysburg Road, MECHANICSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17055
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting a conveyor shaft, reported as making an irregular sound and vibrating, on the unload side of a pod. The belt on the underside of the running conveyor caught the employee's left middle finger and pulled it into a nip point between the driven shaft and a non-driven shaft. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation.

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