# Amputations at Southwire
> OSHA SIR `2020099065` · 9/24/2020 · VILLA RICA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire
- **Location:** 5810 Trade Center Ct, VILLA RICA, GEORGIA, 30180
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A cable operator was staging a reel into the payoff. As she was attempting to manually position the shaft into the hole, her right thumb was caught between the metal reel and the drive arm plate resulting in a below the nail bed thumb amputation without bone loss.

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