# Amputations at Hardwood Products Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181213051` · 12/20/2018 · GUILFORD, MAINE
## 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:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hardwood Products Company, LLC
- **Location:** 31 School Street, GUILFORD, MAINE, 04443
- **NAICS:** 339112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing a vision sorter. While the employee was retrieving paper under the machine, the belt and pulley amputated the employee's left index finger above the first knuckle.

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