# Amputations at Waco Boom Manufacturing, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021021706` · 2/24/2021 · WACO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Waco Boom Manufacturing, LLC
- **Location:** 481 Texas Central Parkway, WACO, TEXAS, 76712
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a billet with a horizontal bandsaw. As the employee closed the vise, his finger was pinched between the vise and the billet. He suffered a partial fingertip amputation.

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