# Amputations at M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021086846` · 8/12/2021 · EUFAULA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** M.C. Dixon Lumber Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 536 West Boundary St, EUFAULA, ALABAMA, 36027
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing waste wood onto a 30-inch-wide, 20-foot-long conveyor. The employee was trying to remove a piece of wood that had hung up in the conveyor's bottom belt when the conveyor caught his hand and amputated his right arm at the shoulder.

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