# Amputations at Hardwood Design, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043393` · 4/14/2020 · EXETER, RHODE ISLAND
## 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:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Hardwood Design, Inc.
- **Location:** Suite E, EXETER, RHODE ISLAND, 02822
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After planing the edge of a piece of wood with a jointer, an employee was inspecting the wood when the jointer's cutting head caught his left glove at the little finger. The finger was amputated at the first joint, below the fingernail.

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