# Amputations at Kaspar Ranch Hand Equipment LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032559` · 3/21/2017 · SHINER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Kaspar Ranch Hand Equipment LLC
- **Location:** 959 State Highway 95 North, SHINER, TEXAS, 77984
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a part into the ring roller machine. As the part was forming, the employee's glove became caught in the rollers and pulled her left hand into the rollers amputating her little, ring and middle fingertips.

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