# Amputations at RK Resources, LP
> OSHA SIR `2018099157` · 9/5/2018 · ALVIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** RK Resources, LP
- **Location:** 1101 East Hwy 6, ALVIN, TEXAS, 77512
- **NAICS:** 561311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was overseeing as a wire was being run through a machine when the wire became jammed. As he tried to help unjam it, the wire caught his left hand and amputated his upper left thumb.

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