# Amputations at Winters Brothers Waste Systems of LI
> OSHA SIR `2018010642` · 1/19/2018 · WEST BABYLON, NEW YORK
## 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:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Winters Brothers Waste Systems of LI
- **Location:** 99 Nancy St., WEST BABYLON, NEW YORK, 11704
- **NAICS:** 562211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to fix a sorting machine's jammed conveyor belt when the belt crushed and amputated the employee's left-hand fingers.

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