# Amputations at Henry Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017010719` · 1/23/2017 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Threading and tapping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Henry Company LLC
- **Location:** 3802 Miller Park Drive, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75042
- **NAICS:** 325188
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pipe threading machine to attach a four-way coupling onto a threaded steel pipe. The employee used a pipe wrench to hold the coupling in place. When the pipe wrench was released from the coupling, the foot pedal was engaged and the pipe wrench came down and crushed the employee's fingertip, amputating it.

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