# Amputations at Savage Refinery Services
> OSHA SIR `20171010079` · 10/20/2017 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** Savage Refinery Services
- **Location:** 1001 S. Airhart Dr., BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77522
- **NAICS:** 562119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to adjust a skirt board on a coke conveyor because product was falling off the conveyor. The conveyor caught the wrench, which then struck the employee's left index finger. The employee's fingertip was removed. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to reattach the fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*