# Amputations at Westbrook Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `20171111300` · 11/28/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Westbrook Manufacturing
- **Location:** 1521 Lathrop, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77020
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a tilted piece of pipe that was being held by a gripper on a band saw. As he was adjusting the pipe, the gripper caught his right pinky fingertip between it and the pipe, causing a partial amputation. The employee's pinky fingertip was later surgically amputated at the nailbed.

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