# Amputations at Hobart Brothers
> OSHA SIR `2020021913` · 2/27/2020 · PIQUA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Hobart Brothers
- **Location:** 8585 Industry Park Dr., PIQUA, OHIO, 45356
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a machine that draws welding wire when the wire pinched his fingertip between the cylinder head and the wire resulting in loss of the finger nail. The employee later sustained a partial left index fingertip amputation after treatment to close the wound.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*