# Amputations at Joe Meyer Tree Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010613` · 1/18/2018 · SPRING GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Logging and wood processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Joe Meyer Tree Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 6809 N. U.S. Highway 12, SPRING GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60081
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a self-propelled wood splitting machine in the storage yard when the vertical splitter lowered on his right hand, crushing and breaking his index finger. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated. The machine was energized at the time.

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