# Amputations at Freeport McMoran
> OSHA SIR `20191213230` · 12/27/2019 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Freeport McMoran
- **Location:** 897 Hawkins Blvd., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79915
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a roll from a copper rolling process using a handheld hydraulic press. The press caught the employee's finger, pinching off the fatty part of the employee's finger.

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