# Amputations at Energy Alloys, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171212140` · 12/21/2017 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal materials-nonstructural, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Energy Alloys, LLC
- **Location:** 10399 Silver Springs Rd., CONROE, TEXAS, 77303
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a work piece into a manual lathe using an overhead crane when the employee's finger was pinched between the machine chuck jaws and the work piece, amputating the fingertip.

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