# Amputations at Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016087788` · 8/19/2016 · MARBLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 17761 Route 208, MARBLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16334
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to unbind a conveyor chain by turning the drive pulley backwards. The chain jumped causing his left thumb to become caught and amputated in the chain and pulley.

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