# Amputations at H-E-B, LP
> OSHA SIR `2020087844` · 8/19/2020 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** H-E-B, LP
- **Location:** 4625 Windfern, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning bottles in the trimmer section of a blow mold machine when the employee's finger was caught in the machinery, resulting in a transphalangeal amputation of the right ring finger.

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