# Amputations at Progress Rail Services
> OSHA SIR `2016021255` · 2/10/2016 · WASKOM, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Beams-unattached metal
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** Progress Rail Services
- **Location:** 830 East Texas Ave., WASKOM, TEXAS, 75692
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a boring mill machine while his right hand rested on top of a metal beam on the shuttle. The beam moved during the operation of the machine and pinched his right middle fingertip between it and another metal beam. His fingertip was amputated.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*