# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Irving Forest Products
> OSHA SIR `2024031919` · 3/1/2024 · COBLESKILL, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Irving Forest Products
- **Location:** 128 MacArthur Ave., COBLESKILL, NEW YORK, 12043
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting preventive maintenance on a jointer machine. As he was cleaning a chain with a rag, it pulled in his right hand, causing the amputation of his index fingertip and a partial amputation to his middle finger.

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