# Amputations at Latrobe Specialty Metals, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065706` · 6/21/2017 · LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Latrobe Specialty Metals, LLC
- **Location:** 2626 Ligonier Street, LATROBE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15650
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a straightener and loading a steel bar into it when his left glove became wrapped around the bar. Two digits on his left hand were amputated.

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