# Amputations at Biotics Research Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020099126` · 9/25/2020 · ROSENBERG, 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Biotics Research Corporation
- **Location:** 6801 Biotics Research Drive, ROSENBERG, TEXAS, 77471
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a tablet press that presses powdered material to form pills. The powder was not flowing evenly into the machine. The employee was moving excess product back into the feed frames and dies when her left index fingertip and fingernail were amputated.

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