# Amputations at Performance Contracting Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018044121` · 4/30/2018 · RICHMOND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contracting Inc
- **Location:** 2500 Y. U. Jones Rd, RICHMOND, TEXAS, 77469
- **NAICS:** 238310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee went to close a breaking machine. When he grabbed the handle he reached over the top of the machine to secure the handle with his left hand. He then pulled the handle and lost his balance. His right hand slipped into the pinch point, which closed on and amputated his right pinky fingertip.

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