# Amputations at Anixter Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111096` · 11/29/2016 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Anixter Inc.
- **Location:** 15101 Trinity Blvd, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76155
- **NAICS:** 423610
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the shrink wrap machine. As he was lowering the stretch wrap to the bottom of a pallet, his left ring finger was caught by the spinning plate that the pallet was sitting on. His finger then became caught in the machine and was amputated.

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