# Amputations at Hohmann & Barnard, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015041856` · 4/9/2015 · TRUSSVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Hohmann & Barnard, Inc.
- **Location:** 1902 Woodman Industral, Dr., TRUSSVILLE, ALABAMA, 35173
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A worker was stringing up the masonry wire machine. He pressed the single cycle button and when the machine cycled forward it caught his glove and pulled his hand through the pulling knurls amputating one half of his right middle finger.

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