# Amputations at Black Horse LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010229` · 1/8/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Black Horse LLC
- **Location:** 9950 West Gulf Bank road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77040
- **NAICS:** 333996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was aligning key-ways for an assembly of a bull gear with the crankshaft when his right pinky finger was caught between the bull gear teeth and the gear teeth on the end of the pinion. His fingertip was amputated.

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