# Amputations at Schulte Building Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016087660` · 8/16/2016 · HOCKLEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Schulte Building Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 17600 BADTKE RD, HOCKLEY, TEXAS, 77447
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a panel line machine. When he attempted to clean dirt off a panel of sheet metal, his fingers were caught in the rollers of the machine, crushing bones in his left middle and ring fingers. His middle and ring fingertips had to be surgically amputated.

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