# Amputations at Runick Metal Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022021604` · 2/18/2022 · WONEWOC, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Runick Metal Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** W9794 Wisconsin 33, WONEWOC, WISCONSIN, 53968
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to release a pivoting fifth wheel plate on a frameless dump trailer. The pin would not release, so he asked another employee to put the truck in reverse to relieve pressure on the pin while he used a hammer to gain leverage on the releasing mechanism. The pivoting plate caught his right index finger and amputated it below the second knuckle.

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