# Amputations at Berger Horticultural Products, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2018010370` · 1/11/2018 · SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Berger Horticultural Products, LTD
- **Location:** 8822 Texas Highway 19 North, SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, 75482
- **NAICS:** 325314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pointing to the belt and pulley of a bagging machine, explaining adjustments that were made previously in the day, when his right index finger was pulled between the belt and the pulley, amputating his fingertip.

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