# Amputations at Kyoei Steel Group
> OSHA SIR `2019021616` · 2/13/2019 · VINTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Kyoei Steel Group
- **Location:** 8001 Border Steel Rd., VINTON, TEXAS, 79821
- **NAICS:** 331491
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a piece of metal stock on a lathe to work on. As he adjusted the cutting knife, his right thumb was caught between the knife and the stock. The tip was cut off.

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