# Amputations at Dresser-Rand Company
> OSHA SIR `2020021797` · 2/24/2020 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Containers-pressurized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dresser-Rand Company
- **Location:** 9500 E Fwy, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77521
- **NAICS:** 333912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a valve on a compressor cylinder. The valve flipped and as the employee tried to stop it, his hands were caught in a pinch point causing amputation of the middle, ring, and pinky fingertips on the right hand. The employee was hospitalized and the fingertips were reattached.

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