# Amputations at Edgewell Personal Care, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017010981` · 1/31/2017 · ORMOND BEACH, FLORIDA
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Edgewell Personal Care, LLC.
- **Location:** 1190 US Hwy 1 North, ORMOND BEACH, FLORIDA, 32174
- **NAICS:** 339999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was resting on top of the depucker machine guard housing while bottles passed by on the conveyor belt. She braced her left hand underneath the machine's conveyor belt guard to push herself back up to a standing position when her left hand made contact with the moving conveyor belt resulting in the amputation of the first joint of her left index and ring fingers. She was hospitalized.

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