# Amputations at Brinker International, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181011156` · 10/29/2018 · DEL RIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by object breaking in hand
- **Source:** Cutting handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brinker International, Inc.
- **Location:** 2415 Veterans Blvd., DEL RIO, TEXAS, 78840
- **NAICS:** 722110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was slicing cucumbers with a manual slicer when the handle came off the slicer. The slicer then amputated the employee's left ring fingertip. Cut-resistant gloves were not worn at the time of the incident.

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