# Amputations at Howell Plywood Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020032505` · 3/17/2020 · DOTHAN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Howell Plywood Corporation
- **Location:** 1141 Blackshear St, DOTHAN, ALABAMA, 36303
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning wood chips off a machine when the plates of the machine amputated her left index fingertip.

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