# Amputations at Hannibal / Lex JV, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065277` · 6/9/2017 · 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Hannibal / Lex JV, LLC
- **Location:** 6501 Bingle Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77092
- **NAICS:** 337215
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using the punch press side of an iron worker machine to punch holes out of a piece of steel when his right pinky finger went under the hold-down dog area of the punch press. The press actuated and amputated his pinky fingertip.

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