# Amputations at Encore Wire
> OSHA SIR `2020043902` · 4/28/2020 · MCKINNEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Encore Wire
- **Location:** 1329 Millwood Road, MCKINNEY, TEXAS, 75069
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting up a reel on a wire packaging machine when a loop in the wire wrapped around his pinky finger. As the reel was turning to wrap around the drum, the loop tightened around his pinky finger and lacerated it, resulting in a pinky fingertip amputation.

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