# Amputations involving bone loss at Beach Timber Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010947` · 1/31/2024 · ALMA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Stationary sawing machinery stationary  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Beach Timber Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 128 Beach Timber Rd., ALMA, GEORGIA, 31510
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a chain and sprocket on a bucksaw. The bucksaw activated and the chain and sprocket caught the employee's left hand and fingers. The four fingers on the hand were amputated.

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