# Amputations at MAPEI CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2018010234` · 1/8/2018 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** MAPEI CORPORATION
- **Location:** 1501 Wall St, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75041
- **NAICS:** 325520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were in the process of draining material from a mixer through its pneumatically actuated ball valve, which is approximately 3 inches in size and located at the bottom of the mixer. The ball valve was actuated, but material did not flow. The injured employee was trying to un-clog the ball valve when it actuated and amputated the employee's left middle fingertip.

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