# Amputations at BOSTON BEER COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2016010506` · 1/19/2016 · BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** BOSTON BEER COMPANY
- **Location:** 7880 PENN DRIVE, BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18031
- **NAICS:** 312120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was relocating a conveyor belt when it shifted in the wrong direction and caught his pinky finger resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.

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