# Amputations at Central Wire, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010752` · 1/26/2016 · UNION, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Central Wire, Inc.
- **Location:** 6509 Olson Road, UNION, ILLINOIS, 60180
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing set up on a wire drawing machine when his hand was pinched between the wire and the block on the machine. His left-hand ring finger was partially amputated and his middle finger was fractured.

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