# Amputations at Empire Lumber Company, Weippe Operations
> OSHA SIR `2020010434` · 1/15/2020 · WEIPPE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Empire Lumber Company, Weippe Operations
- **Location:** 206 East 6th Street, WEIPPE, IDAHO, 83553
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the tension on a canter trash chain when the employee came into contact with the moving chain, resulting in a right index fingertip amputation.

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