# Amputations at AAF Flanders
> OSHA SIR `2019010085` · 1/3/2019 · ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** AAF Flanders
- **Location:** 3500 Flanders Dr., ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, 73401
- **NAICS:** 333411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee identified a damaged product on a line conveyor system, about to be caught up into a leg of operations. He tried to remove it as it approached a break in the covered line and his right index finger was caught in the product's nylon material. The chain and sprocket amputated the fingertip.

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