# Amputations at Martco, LLC - Chopin
> OSHA SIR `2016054076` · 5/11/2016 · CHOPIN, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Woodworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Martco, LLC - Chopin
- **Location:** 1695 Hwy 490, CHOPIN, LOUISIANA, 71447
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the knives on a veneer lathe when two of his left-hand fingers were severely lacerated.

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