# Amputations at Lyssy & Eckel Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043897` · 4/28/2020 · POTH, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lyssy & Eckel Inc.
- **Location:** 1111 E. Westmeyer Street, POTH, TEXAS, 78147
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was freeing a stuck pulley belt on an auger. The belt took off and pulled the employee's hand into the pulley, amputating a fingertip up to the first knuckle.

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