# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Wheelabrator Saugus, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098166` · 9/3/2024 · SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS
## 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:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Wheelabrator Saugus, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Salem Turnpike, SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS, 01906
- **NAICS:** 562213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a deflation fan, belt, and pulley. While working on the fan, the rotor in the fan unexpectedly began to spin due to the activation of a damper within the baghouse. The spinning of the fan caused a belt pulley to begin spinning, which made contact with the employee's hand, resulting in an amputation to the right middle fingertip.

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