# Amputations at Luvata Appleton LLC
> OSHA SIR `20190910081` · 9/26/2019 · APPLETON, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Luvata Appleton LLC
- **Location:** 908 Lawe Street, APPLETON, WISCONSIN, 54911
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a millwright install the bottom block of the wire-pulling device on a wire-drawing machine. The employee was holding onto the 400-600 pound block, trying to straighten it so it would continue traveling down its shaft. The block unjammed and traveled 4-5 inches, injuring the employee's left middle finger in the nail area. The injury resulted in an amputation above the first knuckle.

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