# Amputations at WHM Custom Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016098981` · 9/22/2016 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Furnaces, heaters
## Employer
- **Name:** WHM Custom Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 9500 I-10, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77521
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting a rigger and a crane operator with guiding a furnace tube through the opening of a furnace when the employee's finger was caught between the 90-degree point of the furnace opening and a furnace tube. The right-hand index finger was partially amputated, requiring surgery.

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