# Amputations at A.M. Castle & Company
> OSHA SIR `2020021740` · 2/21/2020 · JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** A.M. Castle & Company
- **Location:** 3800 Enterprise Drive, JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, 53546
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were diagnosing a bundling machine and were in the process of removing blocks.  When the employees actuated the bundling machine, the machine lifted but the machine frame did not. One employee had his fingers between the frame and machine at the time, resulting in the amputation of the employee's right middle and ring fingers.

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