# Amputations at Evans Landscaping, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010627` · 1/19/2018 · CINCINNATI, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Log processing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Evans Landscaping, Inc.
- **Location:** 4229 Roundbottom Rd, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45244
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was splitting wood with a log splitter when he noticed a piece of wood was stuck on the blade. As he tried to clear the wood, his hand contacted a moving cylinder, resulting in his left thumb being amputated between the blade and wood stop or moving cylinder.

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