# Amputations at Hightower Metal Works
> OSHA SIR `20161010183` · 10/29/2016 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hightower Metal Works
- **Location:** 9001 Taub Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77064
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rolling pipes on a metal forming machine and smashed his left index finger in the machine resulting in amputation.

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