# Amputations involving bone loss at Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025087775` · 8/6/2025 · MADILL, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Painting, priming, metal coating machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC
- **Location:** 1297 Smiley Rd, MADILL, OKLAHOMA, 73446
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out a carrier wire rod on the takeoff arm at the fine wire galvanizing line. The takeoff arm began to swing toward the employee and they went to stop it, when their right index finger was caught between the swing and takeoff arm in a 2  metal tubing bracket, resulting in amputation to the first knuckle.

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