# Amputations at Lift-All Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043850` · 4/27/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Sewing, stitching machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Lift-All Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 16803 Hedgecroft Dr., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77060
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an industrial sewing machine to make slings. The presser foot rose while the employee's finger was in the path of the metal channel, and the employee's left middle finger was amputated.

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