# Amputations at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
> OSHA SIR `2022021443` · 2/15/2022 · TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-power not determined, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
- **Location:** 3500 East Washington Rd, TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS, 71854
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working underneath a creel calender machine, using a tool to straighten/comb wires as they enter the creel. The employee's tool contacted a pressure roller and was pulled into a pinch point along with the employee's right hand resulting in amputations to the right thumb tip, and two other fingertips.

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