# Amputations at Texas Honing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021090` · 2/3/2020 · HOUSTON, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Honing, Inc.
- **Location:** 5602 Arapahoe St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77020
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking a piece of cut material off a hydraulic vise machine and asked a second employee to help. The second employee accidentally pushed the wrong button and activated the machine. The injured employee's hand was crushed between points of contact on the hydraulic vise, resulting in a partial amputation of the left ring finger and a crushed middle finger.

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