# Amputations at Comfort Systems USA South Central
> OSHA SIR `20181111635` · 11/12/2018 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Comfort Systems USA South Central
- **Location:** 2850 Fannin st, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77002
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grooving the end of a steel pipe using a roll grooving machine. The machine caught his right middle fingertip, cutting it off.

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