# Amputations at Austin Foam Plastics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109437` · 10/5/2020 · PFLUGERVILLE, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Foam Plastics, Inc.
- **Location:** 2933 A.W. Grimes Blvd., PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS, 78660
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding scrap foam (strings) into a pelletizer machine. The feed rollers caught his glove, causing an amputation of his left middle finger.

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