# Amputations at The Ames Companies Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017099335` · 9/29/2017 · CHAMPION, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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:** The Ames Companies Inc.
- **Location:** 135 Roaring Run Road, CHAMPION, PENNSYLVANIA, 15622
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming wooden dowels at a trump saw when the saw guard struck the employee's right index and middle fingers. Part of the right middle finger 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*