# Amputations at : Hi-Tech Industrial Services, llc.
> OSHA SIR `2020054209` · 5/5/2020 · SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** : Hi-Tech Industrial Services, llc.
- **Location:** 1801 LA-108, SULPHUR, LOUISIANA, 70665
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using his gloved fingers to clean out a gunite machine's feed wheel area when his glove was caught in a pinch point. The feed wheel then caught his left index and ring fingers, resulting in the medical amputation of his index finger and requiring surgery for his ring finger.

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