# Amputations at Idaho Timber LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161110877` · 11/19/2016 · CARTHAGE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Blouses, shirts, dresses, trousers, skirts
## Employer
- **Name:** Idaho Timber LLC
- **Location:** 322 N Oak Street, CARTHAGE, ARKANSAS, 71725
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the board edge unscrambler when he noticed a stick had become jammed beneath the floor chains. When he attempted to remove it, his shirt was caught on a chain lug that then pulled his left arm into the machine, amputating his left ring fingertip, crushing his left hand, and injuring his left arm. The machine was running at the time.

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