# Amputations involving bone loss at Woodgrain Millwork, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109737` · 10/19/2024 · FRUITLAND, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stationary sawing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Woodgrain Millwork, Inc.
- **Location:** 300 NW 16th St, FRUITLAND, IDAHO, 83619
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was investigating a saw blade that was not spinning. The employee was checking the tension chain when the motor activated and his left index finger was caught in the chain belt, resulting in a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation.

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