# Amputations at Pexco LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016010028` · 1/4/2016 · ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pexco LLC
- **Location:** 764 South Athol Road, ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS, 01331
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was performing maintenance on a cutter machine, replacing the drive gear and motor belt. As the employee was adjusting the belt, the machine cycled and rotated the flywheel.  Two bolts on the side of the flywheel caught the employee's right hand, crushing and lacerating the index fingertip and damaging the middle fingernail. The right index fingertip was surgically amputated just below the fingernail.

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