# Amputations at Genisys Controls, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201211614` · 12/11/2020 · ROSENBERG, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Punch presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Genisys Controls, LLC
- **Location:** 151 Randon Dyer Rd., ROSENBERG, TEXAS, 77469
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a punch press, loading a piece of sheet metal and placing a metal bracket near clamps (to protect the rubber seal of a door panel when a clamp comes down). The clamp came down and the bracket amputated the tip of his left thumb.

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