# Amputations involving bone loss at NAVFACSYSCOM Public Works Department Norfolk
> OSHA SIR `2024065015` · 6/6/2024 · NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** NAVFACSYSCOM Public Works Department Norfolk
- **Location:** 9742 Maryland Avenue, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, 23511
- **NAICS:** 561210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was conducting periodic maintenance on an air-handling unit. The employee was checking the tension when the drive belt spun and caught his gloved hand, pulling it into a pulley. The employee's ring fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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