# Amputations at Chadwick Timber Company, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020054891` · 5/27/2020 · SILAS, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Chadwick Timber Company, Inc
- **Location:** 6753 Highway 17, SILAS, ALABAMA, 36919
- **NAICS:** 321113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making his rounds to verify the mill was shut down when he noticed a wood block lodged in the trim/block conveyor underneath the trimmer. When employee moved the wood block, the conveyor belt started and his finger was caught between the block and the belt causing an amputation to the end of the right ring finger.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*