# Amputations at Southwire Company
> OSHA SIR `2018043534` · 4/12/2018 · DENTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southwire Company
- **Location:** 2727 Geesling Road, DENTON, TEXAS, 76208
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee loaded a reel of cable onto the payoff machine area. The employee was rocking the reel into place when the reel went too far forward, catching the employee's left ring and pinky fingers between the side of the metal reel and the vertical support structure of the machine's control panel. The employee's pinky fingertip had to be amputated.

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