# Amputations at Utex Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022020952` · 2/1/2022 · ELMENDORF, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Utex Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 19945 Eagle Ford Way, ELMENDORF, TEXAS, 78112
- **NAICS:** 339991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in a test bay disassembling an iron spool when the spool shifted and his left little finger got caught between flanges, resulting in a degloved finger that had to be partially amputated.

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