# Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries at United Parcel Service
> OSHA SIR `2025065435` · 6/7/2025 · BLAUVELT, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s) and finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Surface, flesh wounds and soft tissue injuries
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** United Parcel Service
- **Location:** 700 Bradley hill road, BLAUVELT, NEW YORK, 10913
- **NAICS:** 492110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading packages on a conveyor belt. As the belt was entering a package car, her hand was caught between the bottom of the belt and the package car shelf. She suffered a dislocated thumb and a laceration on the hand running from the thumb to the beginning of the carpals.

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