# Amputations at Langdale Forest Products Co.
> OSHA SIR `2023043559` · 4/20/2023 · VALDOSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Langdale Forest Products Co.
- **Location:** 1202 Madison Highway, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, 31601
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning and maintaining the outfeed waste conveyors when their right hand was caught in the drive chain. The employee sustained an index fingertip amputation, a laceration to the middle finger, and a ring finger subungual hematoma and non-displaced fracture.

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