# Amputations at Metal & Wire Products Company
> OSHA SIR `2015030109` · 3/12/2015 · SALEM, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal & Wire Products Company
- **Location:** 1065 SALEM PARKWAY, SALEM, OHIO, 44460
- **NAICS:** 332116
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grabbing a tube from a bender when the employee's right pinky finger was smashed between the clamp-block and the radius-block and tube. The right pinky fingertip was amputated.

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