# Amputations at Southwestern Wire, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021053784` · 5/7/2021 · NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwestern Wire, Inc.
- **Location:** 3505 North IH-35, NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, 73069
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been running a weave machine which makes chain link. The employee made an adjustment by tightening a chain to a gear and then went to lunch. Upon returning from lunch, he turned on the machine and noticed the guard on the back of the machine was on the floor. The employee picked up the guard to put it back in place. The gear pulled in his gloved left hand and amputated the pads of the two middle fingers.

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