# Amputations involving bone loss at American Flooring, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054444` · 5/21/2024 · PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** American Flooring, LLC
- **Location:** 180 Independence Drive, PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18640
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stopping a pallet of top slabs on a conveyor belt when their left hand became caught between the pallet and the frame of the lamination pallet elevator. They sustained amputation of their index finger and thumb.

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