# Amputations at WARD LUMBER COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20171110909` · 11/13/2017 · JAY, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WARD LUMBER COMPANY
- **Location:** 697 GLEN ROAD, JAY, NEW YORK, 12941
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 11/13/2017, at 7:00 AM, an employee was using a chain winch to remove a screw auger from a tube in the boiler room. The movement of the auger caused a pulley to turn, and the employee's finger was pinched between the pulley and a protruding bolt head. The employee's right index fingertip was amputated.

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