# Avulsions, enucleations at Amazon.com, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099535` · 9/14/2018 · BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-live roller
## Employer
- **Name:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** 705 Boulder Dr, BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 18031
- **NAICS:** 493190
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on an overhead conveyor. While he was removing a belt from a pulley, his gloved hand slipped between rollers and was pinched causing an avulsion injury requiring hospitalization.

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