# Amputations at Wirerope Works
> OSHA SIR `2015129593` · 12/18/2015 · WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Wirerope Works
- **Location:** 100 Maynard St, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the wire on strander machine #265. The wire was stranding onto a bobbin and somehow his finger got under the wire. The tip of his left middle finger was amputated to the first joint.

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