# Amputations at BIEWER-WISCONSIN SAWMILL, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2021053732` · 5/6/2021 · PRENTICE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** BIEWER-WISCONSIN SAWMILL, INC.
- **Location:** 400 RED PINE COURT, PRENTICE, WISCONSIN, 54556
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 6, 2021, an employee was unjamming a machine. As a sorter bin was lowering, the employee's left index finger was pulled into the pulley system resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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