# Amputations involving bone loss at Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021951` · 2/28/2025 · PEYTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Altman Specialty Plants, Inc.
- **Location:** 14095 Peyton Highway, PEYTON, COLORADO, 80831
- **NAICS:** 111421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing plant flats from a pulley conveyor and was adjusting plants on the conveyor. The employee put their left hand under a flat to fix it, and their glove got caught on a pulley, resulting in amputation of the left little finger.

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