# Amputations at King-Mesa Gin, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010214` · 1/9/2022 · LAMESA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** King-Mesa Gin, Inc.
- **Location:** 415 West Highway 180, LAMESA, TEXAS, 79331
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to clean cotton from a lint cleaner to find the source of a fire in the lint cleaner. The machine's lint saws amputated his left hand.

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