# Amputations at Bingaman & Son Lumber, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018043222` · 4/4/2018 · KREAMER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Bingaman & Son Lumber, Inc
- **Location:** 1195 Creek Mountain Road, KREAMER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17833
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a pneumatically actuated chop saw when his left hand entered the table opening where the blade comes up from below the table. The foot pedal was pressed and the saw actuated, amputating his left thumb just above the first knuckle.

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