# Amputations at Upshur Forest Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021098314` · 9/27/2021 · GILMER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Upshur Forest Products, LLC
- **Location:** 5231 Daffodil Road, GILMER, TEXAS, 75645
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was loading boards into a pallet machine, his left little finger was pinched between the gantry and the piece of wood he was holding and the distal tuft was amputated.

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