# Amputations at Tri Star Metals, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015063382` · 6/3/2015 · FREEPORT, ILLINOIS
## 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, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Tri Star Metals, LLC
- **Location:** 611 W Lamm Rd, FREEPORT, ILLINOIS, 61032
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was searching for the weld in the wire and suffered an amputation to the right index fingertip when the finger was pinched by the wire annealing machine.

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