# Amputations at Nature's Source Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021532` · 2/14/2018 · LAKE CITY, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Log processing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Nature's Source Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 854 Guerdon Street, LAKE CITY, FLORIDA, 32055
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jammed piece of wood from the 4-way splitter by pushing the jammed wood with another piece of wood. When the jammed wood was pushed free the 4-way splitter ram released and came forward striking and amputating the employee's left thumb at the knuckle.

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