# Amputations at Lincoln Manufacturing, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017054155` · 5/8/2017 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Threading and tapping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Lincoln Manufacturing, Inc
- **Location:** 5301 Polk St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77023
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping an operator set up a pipe threading line. The employee was loosening a part on the pipe threading line when the set-up operator turned a switch on to move the pipe into a CNC machine. The CNC machine then amputated the employee's right index finger.

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