# Amputations involving bone loss at Fifth Avenue Lumber Co
> OSHA SIR `2024042876` · 4/1/2024 · CANAL WINCHESTER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Boring, planing, milling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Fifth Avenue Lumber Co
- **Location:** 5200 Winchester Pike, CANAL WINCHESTER, OHIO, 43110
- **NAICS:** 321214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing debris from a shaper machine when the feed wheels caught his glove and pulled his hand into the blade, resulting in two right-hand finger amputations and injury to another finger.

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