# Amputations at The Davey Tree Expert Company
> OSHA SIR `2022031957` · 3/3/2022 · UNIONTOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Chippers
## Employer
- **Name:** The Davey Tree Expert Company
- **Location:** Unknown, UNIONTOWN, OHIO, 44685
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee placed a log in a chipper. When the feed wheels of the chipper took the log, the butt of the log kicked upward and crushed the employee's right fingers between the log and the top of the feed chute, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

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