# Amputations at Kyoei Steel, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2022010163` · 1/7/2022 · VINTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kyoei Steel, LTD
- **Location:** 8001 Border Steel Rd., VINTON, TEXAS, 79821
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating equipment when a piece of bar got stuck in the rolls. He used another piece of bar to dislodge it. The bar was caught, creating a pinch point between the roll and the bar and resulting in amputation of the employee's left ring finger.

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