# Amputations at ASAP Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015085859` · 8/17/2015 · HOUMA, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** ASAP Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 908 Blimp Rd., HOUMA, LOUISIANA, 70363
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding a pipe on a training lathe while wearing gloves. The employee's right glove got caught on the pipe and was drawn into the turning pipe, amputating part of his right thumb tip. He was hospitalized.

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