# Amputations at Priefert Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088542` · 8/20/2018 · MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Priefert Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2630 South Jefferson, MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, 75456
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing a flying cut-off saw door when his hand slipped and his right ring finger was cut in the pinch point created by the closed door. He suffered a partial amputation of his ring finger.

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