# Amputations at Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010272` · 10/1/2019 · GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Milling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Rea Magnet Wire Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 129 Soundview Road, GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06437
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing the wire from a capstan onto the empty take-off spool of a mill machine when the employee's left index fingertip was caught in the wire and amputated.

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