# Amputations at Excel Maintenance Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2016098778` · 9/16/2016 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Excel Maintenance Incorporated
- **Location:** 5924 East Highway 332, FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to install a belt on a pulley system on a PVC mixer machine when his finger was caught between the pulley and the belt, amputating his pinky finger above the fingernail.

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