# Amputations at WOODS EQUIPMENT COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2022032337` · 3/15/2022 · OREGON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Lathes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Sanders-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** WOODS EQUIPMENT COMPANY
- **Location:** 2606 South Illinois Route 2, OREGON, ILLINOIS, 61061
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an emery cloth to clean a part on a lathe. The rotating jaws of the chuck caught the cloth and pulled in his gloved left hand, deeply lacerating the middle finger. The fingertip was medically amputated just behind the nail.

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