# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Southern Parallel Forest Products
> OSHA SIR `2024021000` · 2/1/2024 · ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Parallel Forest Products
- **Location:** 660 Industrial Blvd, ALBERTVILLE, ALABAMA, 35950
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working to repair the jump chains at the stacker. He was changing a sprocket when his left thumb was caught between the belt and the sheave he was using to adjust the sprocket's position. He suffered an amputation at the last joint of the thumb.

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