# Amputations at Custom Rubber Products, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017032248` · 3/10/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Custom Rubber Products, Inc
- **Location:** 2625 Bennington Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77093
- **NAICS:** 313320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 10, 2017, an employee was operating a press machine with his hand resting on the machine's track. The automated mold platform pinched his left index finger resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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