# Amputations at Atkore
> OSHA SIR `20231211438` · 12/16/2023 · NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Other material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Atkore
- **Location:** 960 Flaherty Drive, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02745
- **NAICS:** 423610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was coiling scrap wire on a back coiler when a loop in the wire caught the employee's right thumb tip, resulting in amputation.

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