# Amputations at J & A Pallets Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020010823` · 1/25/2020 · CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** J & A Pallets Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 1225 Arnold Street, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, 60411
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting notches in 2x4 wooden boards with a woodcutting notching machine when the machine amputated two middle fingers and part of the pinky finger on the employee's right hand.

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