# Amputations at SKF USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022053783` · 5/2/2022 · WINSTED, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** SKF USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 149 Colebrook River Road, WINSTED, CONNECTICUT, 06098
- **NAICS:** 332991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 2, 2022, an employee was aligning a fixture on the rotating work table of a vertical turret lathe when his wrench slipped and his hand contacted a steel cable. The employee sustained a partial amputation to a finger.

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