# Amputations at Boomerang Tube, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019043757` · 4/11/2019 · LIBERTY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Threading and tapping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Boomerang Tube, LLC
- **Location:** 402 Highway 90, LIBERTY, TEXAS, 77575
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a threader. Shavings had balled up; the employee was removing them with a tool when the shavings were caught and pulled his hand into the machine's disc guard. He suffered a displaced fracture with partial amputation of the right little fingertip.

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