# Amputations at Muth Lumber Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017099367` · 9/16/2017 · IRONTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Muth Lumber Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1301 Adams Ln, IRONTON, OHIO, 45638
- **NAICS:** 423310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to get a pulley going on a stacker/trimmer machine when the employee's glove was caught in the pulley. The pulley then smashed the employee's hand resulting in a finger amputation.

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