# Amputations at Leader Gasket
> OSHA SIR `2016032436` · 3/24/2016 · DEER PARK, 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:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Leader Gasket
- **Location:** 905 W. 13th Street, DEER PARK, TEXAS, 77536
- **NAICS:** 339991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the air line on a three-station pneumatic press. Her finger was in a porthole on the equipment when she connected the air line to the machine. The air caused a piston in the machine to be actuated while her finger was in the hole, amputating her right pinky finger between the first and second knuckle.

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