# Amputations at ProBuild Companies, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20181010211` · 10/3/2018 · SHERMAN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** ProBuild Companies, LLC.
- **Location:** 200 Cody Lane, SHERMAN, TEXAS, 75092
- **NAICS:** 236115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a piece of lumber from a web saw. The saw blade kicked the lumber back, pulling the employee's middle finger toward the fixed guard and amputating the fingertip.

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