# Amputations at Thomas Wiedemeier Sawmill
> OSHA SIR `2022031984` · 3/3/2022 · PORTERFIELD, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Thomas Wiedemeier Sawmill
- **Location:** N6480 Riverview Rd, PORTERFIELD, WISCONSIN, 54159
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pallet stringer notcher. A piece of pallet stringer became lodged in the machine. The employee was trying to remove it when his glove was caught and his hand was pulled into the blades of the notcher. All four fingers and part of the employee's thumb on the right hand were amputated. The machine was not locked out at the time.

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