# Amputations at RTI International Metals Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171010372` · 10/30/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** RTI International Metals Inc.
- **Location:** 7600 South Sante fe, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77061
- **NAICS:** 331318
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a billet onto a roller that feeds an extruder when the billet became jammed. He was trying to unjam the billet when his right index finger was pinched by two billets. His finger had to be amputated.

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