# Amputations at Diamond Plastics Corp
> OSHA SIR `2015085548` · 8/7/2015 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Diamond Plastics Corp
- **Location:** 2323 Marshall St, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79415
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working a piece of pre breaker when the pipe jammed.  The employee was cutting the pipe to release the jam when the safety gate struck the tip of the employee's third digit amputating the fingertip.

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