# Amputations at WIRECO WORLDGROUP, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2022021408` · 2/14/2022 · SEDALIA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** WIRECO WORLDGROUP, INC.
- **Location:** 24150 OAK GROVE LANE, SEDALIA, MISSOURI, 65301
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tightening wire on a bobbin. The employee was holding a strand while tightening the tension on the reel, and his left index finger was caught between the strand and the reel, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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