# Amputations at Aquamar, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021098166` · 9/22/2021 · CARTERET, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Aquamar, Inc.
- **Location:** 100 Raskulinecz Rd., CARTERET, NEW JERSEY, 07008
- **NAICS:** 311710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been sanitizing a portable conveyor belt. While moving a section of the conveyor system, the employee's right index finger was caught by a tire of the conveyor system and their fingertip was amputated.

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