# Amputations at MID-SOUTH WIRE COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2019032866` · 3/19/2019 · SCOTT CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Containers, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MID-SOUTH WIRE COMPANY
- **Location:** 503 Main Street, SCOTT CITY, MISSOURI, 63780
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just lowered a partially filled carrier of wire onto a machine turntable and was disengaging the crane hook from the carrier. The hook raised, and the employee's left middle fingertip was amputated between it and the carrier.

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