# Amputations at Schlemmer USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019077331` · 7/18/2019 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Schlemmer USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 4709 Macro Dr., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78218
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was manually clearing plastic material off the air rod of an extruder as it was running into the corrugator when the corrugator machine caught his finger and amputated the fingertip.

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