# Amputations at Wire Rope Works Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022010645` · 1/21/2022 · WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** Wire Rope Works Inc
- **Location:** 100 MAYNARD ST., WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a steel bar to cap on a drum assembly. The bar caught the employee's hand and pulled it up into the framework of the gear system of a nearby stranding machine. The employee's hand was pinched between the bar and the machine's frame, and the employee suffered a fingertip amputation.

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