# Amputations at Solar Turbines Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2019099819` · 9/19/2019 · CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Solar Turbines Incorporated
- **Location:** 16504 DE ZAVALLA RD., CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS, 77530
- **NAICS:** 333611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While loading angle into a machine for cutting, an employee's finger was pinched between the angle being loaded and the machine's clamp resulting in amputation of the left middle fingertip.

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