# Amputations at Daniele International, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181010993` · 10/24/2018 · MAPLEVILLE, RHODE ISLAND
## 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:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Daniele International, Inc.
- **Location:** 1000 Daniele Drive, MAPLEVILLE, RHODE ISLAND, 02839
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spraying and cleaning metal rollers near a conveyor belt that was in a raised position to clean underneath it. She tried to pull a piece of meat out from between the metal rollers when her right hand was pulled in by the moving conveyor belt. She sustained a broken right index finger and had her right ring and middle fingers surgically amputated. The belt was moving at the time of the incident.

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