# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at PSSI
> OSHA SIR `2024088072` · 8/30/2024 · CRETE, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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 belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** PSSI
- **Location:** 2223 County Road I, CRETE, NEBRASKA, 68333
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the bacon department by spraying the floor and two running bacon conveyor belts with a hose and hot water. The employee placed her hand on the side of the conveyor to remove the slippery layer of bacon residue. Her left index and middle fingers contacted the conveyor belt next to a roller and was pulled into a structural part of the bacon press that had a metal edge. The employee sustained an amputation to her index and middle fingertips.

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