# Amputations at Blue Mountain Recycling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171211510` · 12/4/2017 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Mountain Recycling, LLC
- **Location:** 2904 ELLSWORTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19146
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replenishing wire on a baler when the baler was engaged. The wire then looped around the employee's left index finger and amputated the fingertip.

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