# Amputations at Cross Metals LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021075830` · 7/16/2021 · REMLAP, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Cross Metals LLC
- **Location:** 14064 State Hwy 75, REMLAP, ALABAMA, 35133
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting a malfunction in the wire tie of a baler. The tension release bar engaged and caught the employee's right index fingertip resulting in an open fracture and partial amputation.

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