# Amputations at Sims Bark Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021073` · 2/3/2020 · TUSCUMBIA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Sims Bark Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 1765 Spring Valley Rd, TUSCUMBIA, ALABAMA, 35674
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up the hardwood shaker area and attempted to pull a piece of metal out of a conveyor. The piece of metal then severely lacerated the employee's left thumb, resulting in a surgical thumb tip amputation. The conveyor was running at the time of the incident.

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