# Amputations at Insteel Wire Products Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010212` · 1/8/2017 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
## Employer
- **Name:** Insteel Wire Products Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3050 Melson Avenue, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32254
- **NAICS:** 331222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was flattening out sheets of wire mesh when his right middle finger was caught between two wire bundle sheets, amputating his right middle fingertip without bone loss.

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