# Amputations at Insteel Wire Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010041` · 1/3/2015 · DAYTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Insteel Wire Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 500 Klemp Road, DAYTON, TEXAS, 77535
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees use a draw machine to extrude wire.  The employee bypassed the guard or disabled it to remove soap build-up on the wire coming from the die. The employee amputated the middle, ring, and pinky fingers on the right hand and the first digit of the index finger. Employee was hospitalized and released. The injury occurred on 1/3/15 at approximately 6:00 p.m.

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