# Amputations at Panel Truss Texas, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2018099159` · 9/5/2018 · HENDERSON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Panel Truss Texas, Incorporated
- **Location:** 700 Kilgore Drive, HENDERSON, TEXAS, 75652
- **NAICS:** 321214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an automated linear saw and trying to reposition a board that was being fed into the saw when her finger became caught between the board and the guard of the machine, resulting in the amputation of her left index fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*