# Amputations at Lubrication Technologies Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017087553` · 8/8/2017 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lubrication Technologies Inc
- **Location:** 7699 W Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71129
- **NAICS:** 324191
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While making an adjustment to a pouch manufacturing machine, an employee had his left thumb pinched by the machine's cutting blades resulting in partial amputation of the thumb. At the time the interlocked door had been bypassed.

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