# Amputations at Stewart Tubular Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017031986` · 3/2/2017 · 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:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Stewart Tubular Products, LLC
- **Location:** 5951 N. Houston Rosslyn Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77091
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a finished part from a CNC lathe. With his hand on the part, he inadvertently stepped on a foot control that actuated a hold down ram. The ram came back in on the part and amputated the upper portion of the employee's right thumb.

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