# Amputations at Southern Bleacher Company
> OSHA SIR `20171010229` · 10/25/2017 · GRAHAM, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Bleacher Company
- **Location:** 801 5th St., GRAHAM, TEXAS, 76450
- **NAICS:** 337127
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a 7-inch channel on a conveyor belt when his left hand was caught between the belt and the channel, amputating his middle fingernail.

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