# Amputations at WMC Steel
> OSHA SIR `2020010696` · 1/22/2020 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** WMC Steel
- **Location:** 18490 Main Street, CONROE, TEXAS, 77385
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a flexible cable tray on a production machine. The tray was raised using a bottle jack. The bottle jack kicked out while the employee's finger was in an alignment hole on the flexible cable tray, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

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