# Amputations at KPS Global
> OSHA SIR `2019032441` · 3/6/2019 · FORT WORTH, 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:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** KPS Global
- **Location:** 4201 N. Beach St., FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76137
- **NAICS:** 423740
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance technician was trying to free a piece of metal lodged in a metal roll former. The machine engaged and crushed the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers. The ring finger was amputated.

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