# Amputations at Varn Wood Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019032420` · 3/6/2019 · HOBOKEN, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** Varn Wood Products, LLC
- **Location:** 11873 N. Brantley Ave., HOBOKEN, GEORGIA, 31542
- **NAICS:** 321912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up around a sawmill, throwing logs onto a long-log chain-conveyor. The nip point between a metal trough and a log caught his right index finger, causing a partial amputation at the first joint.

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