# Amputations at Kencoil
> OSHA SIR `2019010337` · 1/10/2019 · WINNSBORO, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kencoil
- **Location:** 9 Mary Marr, WINNSBORO, LOUISIANA, 71295
- **NAICS:** 334416
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was looping coil on a machine when one of the wires came out of alignment and he moved it back in place. His hand was in the path of the loop when the machine was activated via the foot pedal, causing the loop bar to turn and amputate his right middle fingertip.

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