# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Harbor Freight Tools Texas L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2025088449` · 8/24/2025 · ELWOOD, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Conveyors belt, slot, chain
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Harbor Freight Tools Texas L.P.
- **Location:** 3401 S Brandon Rd, ELWOOD, ILLINOIS, 60421
- **NAICS:** 493110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was re-tensioning the pulleys on a conveyor belt in a shipping merge. He restarted the conveyor and his right index finger got caught in the belt, which pulled it into a pulley and amputated the top of the finger just past the fingertip. The pulleys were not guarded at the time of the incident.

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