# Amputations at National Oilwell Varco
> OSHA SIR `2022021360` · 2/12/2022 · CONROE, 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** National Oilwell Varco
- **Location:** 3770 Pollok Dr., CONROE, TEXAS, 77303
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a machine part into a CNC machine when their thumb got caught between the chuck jaw and the part resulting in partial amputation of the thumb.

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