# Amputations at United Sorbents, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018088103` · 8/8/2018 · PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS
## 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Winders, unwinders
## Employer
- **Name:** United Sorbents, LLC
- **Location:** 3250 Commerce St, PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, 77642
- **NAICS:** 313230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was winding rolls of sorbent plastic material when one of the cores became stuck. She hit the core with the palm of her hand as instructed to make it move again. It began rolling and her left hand was caught and crushed in the machine. She suffered bruising and a fracture to the middle finger, a cut to the end of the middle finger that needed stitches, and some bone chipping to the pinky finger.

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