# Amputations at Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020043683` · 4/21/2020 · MC COMB, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC
- **Location:** 312 Rader Rd., MC COMB, OHIO, 45858
- **NAICS:** 311821
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 21, 2020, an employee had just completed preventive maintenance on a conveyor's belt and bearings, and was checking how the belt was tracking, when a powered roller in the middle of the belt caught his right thumb. He suffered a degloving that resulted in a partial amputation of the thumb tip.

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