# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at USPS
> OSHA SIR `2025010190` · 1/7/2025 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** Material handling and warehousing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** USPS
- **Location:** 7400 Lindburgh Blvd, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19176
- **NAICS:** 491110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on an automated package processing system when a finger on their left hand became caught in the belt. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the distal fingertip.

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