# Amputations at Hay Creek Pallet Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018065907` · 6/15/2018 · PITTSVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Hay Creek Pallet Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 5094 Second Avenue, PITTSVILLE, WISCONSIN, 54466
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a jam on a pallet board notcher machine when the employee's left hand became caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in a ring fingertip amputation.

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