# Amputations at Flour Enterprise
> OSHA SIR `2018043584` · 4/14/2018 · TATUM, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Boilers
## Employer
- **Name:** Flour Enterprise
- **Location:** 8850 FM 2658, TATUM, TEXAS, 75691
- **NAICS:** 221112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a top bearing onto a fan inboard shaft when his left ring fingertip was caught in a pinch point between the inner radius of the bearing and the thrust ring, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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