# Amputations involving bone loss at G&S Lumber Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024054320` · 5/16/2024 · NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Upper arm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Stationary sawing machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** G&S Lumber Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 291 S US Highway 59, NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS, 75963
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming crooked logs, slipped on wet metal tracks, and fell backward into a 58" diameter saw blade that was rotating at 840 revolutions per minute. The employee sustained an amputation of his left arm, just above the elbow.

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