# Amputations at Bridon-Bekaert The Ropes Group
> OSHA SIR `2023109310` · 10/9/2023 · EXETER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Hand(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:** Bridon-Bekaert The Ropes Group
- **Location:** 101 Stevens Lane, EXETER, PENNSYLVANIA, 18643
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were reassembling a stranding machine. A chain pulled an employee's left hand into the chain and sprocket of the machine resulting in an amputation to the hand.

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