# Amputations at Caterpillar Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018099787` · 9/21/2018 · VICTORIA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Welding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Caterpillar Inc
- **Location:** 7300 Lone Tree Road, VICTORIA, TEXAS, 77905
- **NAICS:** 333618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fitting a skirt to the center core of an upper frame for an excavator when the pneumatic clamp was actuated, making contact with the employee's left thumb and resulting in a fracture and partial amputation of the thumb.

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