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Amputations

1 amputation · 2021053784 · 5/7/2021 · Southwestern Wire, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized
0
Amputation
1
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
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.
Secondary source
Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves

Employer

Name
Southwestern Wire, Inc.
Location
3505 North IH-35, NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, 73069
NAICS
331222
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee had been running a weave machine which makes chain link. The employee made an adjustment by tightening a chain to a gear and then went to lunch. Upon returning from lunch, he turned on the machine and noticed the guard on the back of the machine was on the floor. The employee picked up the guard to put it back in place. The gear pulled in his gloved left hand and amputated the pads of the two middle fingers.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine
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