# Amputations at Continental Cable, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021097744` · 9/9/2021 · HINSDALE, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Continental Cable, LLC
- **Location:** 253 Monument Road, HINSDALE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03451
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with a 50-ton swage machine pressing metal beads onto wire rope. The employee was using an Allen wrench to position the part between the dies when the machine closed on their right index finger resulting in a fingertip amputation to the first knuckle.

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