# Amputations at CLIFTON MOULDING CORP.
> OSHA SIR `20181111783` · 11/15/2018 · CLIFTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** CLIFTON MOULDING CORP.
- **Location:** 100 S AVENUE B, CLIFTON, TEXAS, 76634
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grading mouldings on a moulder machine. When she attempted to blow off the machine with an air hose, her hand went between the guard and the moulder head. The moulder cutter head amputated  her right thumb and index fingers from the end of the nailbed to the tip.

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