# Amputations at JSW STEEL USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055103` · 5/20/2019 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** JSW STEEL USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 5200 E. MCKINNEY, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77523
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioning a piece of steel in a band saw's pneumatically powered clamp mechanism to hold the sample for cutting when his right thumb distal tip was caught in the clamp. He suffered a partial amputation of the thumb tissue under the nail.

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