# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Southwest Log & Timber Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010362` · 1/14/2024 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwest Log & Timber Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 10279 Hicks Field Road, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76179
- **NAICS:** 321992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 14, 2024, an employee was using a wood splitter to split pieces of wood when his left middle finger was pinched between the splitting ram and the wood block, resulting in a fingertip amputation just below the nail.

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