# Amputations at Clifton Moulding Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017043476` · 4/18/2017 · CLIFTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Clifton Moulding Corporation
- **Location:** 100 South Avenue B, CLIFTON, TEXAS, 76634
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the finger joint machine and amputated the tip of his left middle finger above the first knuckle.

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