# Amputations at Green Tweed & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015097154` · 9/28/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Green Tweed & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1930 Rankin Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77073
- **NAICS:** 339991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was resetting a machine center to the home position when his left-hand ring finger got pinched between the spindle and the ball part of the press. This 
de-gloved the finger, which had to be surgically amputated.

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