# Amputations at Dal-Tile Distribution, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191010754` · 10/15/2019 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Dal-Tile Distribution, Inc.
- **Location:** 12001 Railroad, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79934
- **NAICS:** 327122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine that load tiles into a box. The employee attempted to correct mis-loading of tiles into the box when their gloved index finger was caught in the pulleys that drive the roller and conveyor feeding tiles into the box resulting in amputation.

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