# Amputations involving bone loss at FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054028` · 5/8/2024 · GROVEPORT, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Arm(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Conveyors  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
- **Location:** 6840 Pontius Road, GROVEPORT, OHIO, 43125
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on an extendable conveyor and lost his footing while standing under the running conveyor. His left arm was caught between the drive roller and snubber rollers in the conveyor and amputated.

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