# Amputations at United Furniture Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016099185` · 9/29/2016 · AMORY, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** United Furniture Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 311 Martin Luther King Blvd., AMORY, MISSISSIPPI, 38821
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a board that was double-stacked on a chain conveyor. When he moved the top board, his right index finger was pinched by the boards or chain conveyor and his fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

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