# Amputations at Flow America, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065563` · 6/15/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Boring, routing, notching machines
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Flow America, LLC
- **Location:** 8800 Westplain Dr., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 332911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was machining a component on a horizontal boring mill when the employee's glove was caught in the rotating boring instrument, resulting in the amputation of the employee's right hand thumb.

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