# Amputations at Mortex Products
> OSHA SIR `2017087429` · 8/4/2017 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Garage doors
## Employer
- **Name:** Mortex Products
- **Location:** 501 Terminal Rd., FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76106
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing an overhead door that was stuck when his left hand became caught in the gears, amputating the first section of his little, ring, and middle fingers.

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