# Amputations involving bone loss at Elmwood Bark and Stone
> OSHA SIR `2025010115` · 1/6/2025 · WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Elmwood Bark and Stone
- **Location:** 69 Talcott Road, WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06110
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a log splitter when his left hand was caught between the end of a log and the splitter, resulting in amputation of the thumb.

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