# Amputations involving bone loss at HOOD INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025032561` · 3/18/2025 · WIGGINS, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Chippers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** HOOD INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 1945 SOUTH 1ST ST., WIGGINS, MISSISSIPPI, 39577
- **NAICS:** 321211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading logs onto a feeder chain into the chipper when his left hand was crushed between the throat of the chipper and the core. Two fingers were injured and surgically amputated.

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