# Amputations at Southwire Company
> OSHA SIR `2023109518` · 10/15/2023 · DENTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire Company
- **Location:** 2727 Geesling Road, DENTON, TEXAS, 76208
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the metering pin alignment when his right index finger was caught between the caster wheel and the tension wheel resulting in a partial amputation.

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