# Amputations at Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center
> OSHA SIR `20201211504` · 12/8/2020 · BRADENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center
- **Location:** 1324 37th Ave East,, BRADENTON, FLORIDA, 34208
- **NAICS:** 622210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting wood with a chop saw. As the employee fed wood into the saw, the blade caught the tips of their left index and middle fingers. The employee suffered soft-tissue amputations to both fingertips.

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