# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Pritchard Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025043719` · 4/22/2025 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Cooling and humidifying machinery, appliances  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Pritchard Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 1370 Avenue of the Americas, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10019
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing the motor for cooling tower fans. He was freeing up the seized motor by rocking the belt back and forth. The motor released and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the motor and the belt, resulting in an amputation to the tip of the thumb.

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