# Amputations at Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2020098347` · 9/1/2020 · WALLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Brake presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Goodman Manufacturing Company, L.P.
- **Location:** 19001 Kermier Rd., WALLER, TEXAS, 77484
- **NAICS:** 333415
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a bend channel in a sheet of metal using a press brake. The brake actuated and the sheet metal rose up against the brake die, smashing the employee's fingers between the brake die and the sheet metal. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left middle finger at the last joint.

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