# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at East Coast Woodworking, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024021118` · 2/6/2024 · WEST BATH, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** East Coast Woodworking, Inc.
- **Location:** 56 New Meadows Road, WEST BATH, MAINE, 04530
- **NAICS:** 337212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a piece of wood through a jointer machine. The wood caught and stopped moving, but the employee's left hand kept moving and contacted the blade. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the little finger, below the first knuckle.

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