# Amputations at Oak Chips Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211435` · 12/8/2016 · WAVERLY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Oak Chips Inc.
- **Location:** 306 West North Street, WAVERLY, OHIO, 45690
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feed-loading a board into the loading port or opening of a sap edger when the board kicked back out of the port, causing four of his left-hand fingers to be pinched between the ejected board and another stationary or slowly moving board on the conveyor.

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