# Amputations at Republic Steel Wire Processing LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021098354` · 9/28/2021 · SOLON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Republic Steel Wire Processing LLC
- **Location:** 31000 Solon Road, SOLON, OHIO, 44139
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming bars in a wire-drawing machine. His left little finger was crushed between two of the bars in the machine, and he suffered an avulsion and amputation to the finger.

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