# Amputations at Quality Electric Steel Casters
> OSHA SIR `2019011152` · 1/31/2019 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forging machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Electric Steel Casters
- **Location:** 252 McCarty Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 332510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to put a cable back onto the pulley of a furnace door when his gloved left index finger was caught between the cable and the groove of the pulley. The cable tightened and the employee tried to pull his gloved hand out. At that time, the cable amputated his left index finger to the second knuckle.

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