# Amputations at Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211339` · 12/5/2016 · PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Chippers
## Employer
- **Name:** Allegheny Wood Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 577 Clover Dew Dairy Road, PRINCETON, WEST VIRGINIA, 24740
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing boards into a chipper when the ends of two boards closed together and caught the employee's right middle fingertip, amputating approximately one-third of the fingernail.

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