# Amputations at Tex-Fab, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099331` · 9/10/2018 · CYPRESS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tex-Fab, Inc.
- **Location:** 23138 US Hwy 290, CYPRESS, TEXAS, 77429
- **NAICS:** 332313
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a tool to check the correct diameter of sheet metal in a roller machine when his gloved right hand was caught by the roller and pulled into the machine, crushing four fingers. As a result, the four fingers were amputated.

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