# Amputations at MID CONTINENT STEEL & WIRE, INC
> OSHA SIR `2020010935` · 1/29/2020 · POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MID CONTINENT STEEL & WIRE, INC
- **Location:** 1450 Rowe Parkway, POPLAR BLUFF, MISSOURI, 63901
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was untwisting nail wire in a nail maker machine and suffered a right thumb amputation.

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