# Amputations at Blackwell Job Corps Center
> OSHA SIR `2017099079` · 9/21/2017 · LAONA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Blackwell Job Corps Center
- **Location:** WD Flooring, LAONA, WISCONSIN, 54541
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a chop saw to cut pieces of flooring when the saw blade partially amputated his left first finger digit.

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