# Amputations at Optimus Steel
> OSHA SIR `2020054309` · 5/8/2020 · VIDOR, TEXAS
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Optimus Steel
- **Location:** 100 Old Hwy 90 West, VIDOR, TEXAS, 77662
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching for rebar gathered in a trough on a rebar stretching machine when the employee's right ring fingertip was pinched as the trough actuated. The employee sustained a distal amputation on the right ring finger.

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