# Amputations at CIR Acquisition, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231110877` · 11/28/2023 · MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** CIR Acquisition, LLC
- **Location:** 200 Brown Street, MERCER, PENNSYLVANIA, 16137
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a wire stripper machine trying to put some wire through. The wire caught the employee's leather glove and pulled his left hand into the wire stripper. The employee sustained an amputation to the little finger. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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