# Amputations at Weinbrenner Shoe Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016076476` · 7/18/2016 · MERRILL, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Planing mills
## Employer
- **Name:** Weinbrenner Shoe Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 108 S Polk Street, MERRILL, WISCONSIN, 54452
- **NAICS:** 316213
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to cleanout a planer. He removed the exhaust chute and reached into the machine while the planer blades were still coasting resulting in the amputation of the left ring fingertip.

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