# Amputations at Southwire Company
> OSHA SIR `2018032869` · 3/24/2018 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire Company
- **Location:** 1 Southwire Drive, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30119
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading up a payoff machine when the employee's left index finger was caught between the reel and the drive arm of the payoff, resulting in an amputation of the distal phalanges on the left index finger.

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