# Amputations at Buna Electric Motors Services
> OSHA SIR `2020054720` · 5/21/2020 · 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, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Buna Electric Motors Services
- **Location:** 465 S. Main St, VIDOR, TEXAS, 77662
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was balancing a blower assembly that had a mechanical indicator with a magnet. While the blower wheel was moving to check for vibrations, his hand entered the assembly and it caught his thumb, resulting in a right thumb amputation. He was hospitalized.

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