# Amputations at Technimark, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018066128` · 6/21/2018 · EL PASO, 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 during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Technimark, LLC
- **Location:** 425-B Pan American Dr., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79907
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on top of a molding machine, trying to start it, when the safety bar activated and smashed his right ring fingertip. He was hospitalized and had surgery to remove the finger above the first knuckle.

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