# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at ALAN WIRE COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2025065782` · 6/17/2025 · SIKESTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** ALAN WIRE COMPANY
- **Location:** 1500 West Malone Avenue, SIKESTON, MISSOURI, 63801
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been operating a copper wire repack machine. She turned the machine off and was fixing a stuck cylinder in it when the door that had been covering the cylinder closed on her fingers. Her left ring and middle fingertips were amputated by an air-operated plastic cutter inside the machine.

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