# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Conservation Legacy
> OSHA SIR `2025077527` · 7/31/2025 · HESPERUS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## 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:** Conservation Legacy
- **Location:** Old Fort Lewis at Hesperus, HESPERUS, COLORADO, 81326
- **NAICS:** 115310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were operating a wood splitter. An employee was loading wood into the splitter when the tip of his right thumb was crushed between the rear end of the wood and the back metal plate of the wood splitter. The employee's thumb tip was amputated.

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