# Amputations at WOLVERINE TUBE, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017021245` · 2/8/2017 · SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WOLVERINE TUBE, INC.
- **Location:** 41600 WOLVERINE RD, SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, 74804
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hand feeding a copper tube into a finning machine with her right hand. The employee rested her left hand on top of the slide gate guard with her fingertips behind the guard. The machine was in the automatic mode. The slide gate activated and amputated her left small fingertip.

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