# Amputations at Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211995` · 12/29/2016 · ARCADIA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** One Ashley Way, ARCADIA, WISCONSIN, 54612
- **NAICS:** 337121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 29, 2016, an employee was a clearing a jam on the in-feed conveyor of a double-end foiler machine when the employee's right ring finger was pinched and lacerated in a pinch point between the feedstock material and the framework of the conveyor's emergency stop paddle. The employee was hospitalized.

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