# Amputations at EMP Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181212378` · 12/3/2018 · COPPELL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-screw, auger
## Employer
- **Name:** EMP Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 220 North Freeport Parkway, COPPELL, TEXAS, 75019
- **NAICS:** 325611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clean out clogged product from the bottom gate of an industrial mixer screw conveyor when the screw caught his left index finger, resulting in the amputation of his finger to the first knuckle. The conveyor was running 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*