# Abrasions at Balance Professionals, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2025087721` · 8/5/2025 · CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), finger(s)  unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Abrasions
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Balance Professionals, Inc
- **Location:** 26 Taxiway Drive, CHICOPEE, MASSACHUSETTS, 01022
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was placing boxes on a conveyor belt and fixing a label on one box on the belt. Her left little finger became caught in the belt and it flipped her hand, causing a friction burn. The employee was hospitalized.

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