# Amputations at National Oilwell Varco
> OSHA SIR `2022021536` · 2/16/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Metal materials-nonstructural, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** National Oilwell Varco
- **Location:** 4703 Creekmont Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77091
- **NAICS:** 333132
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee using a computer numerical control (CNC) lathe was loading a piece of ram shaft and was using his left hand to hold the tailstock. When the button was pushed to tighten the tailstock, in began to close, and the employee's left thumb and index finger were crushed between the piece of material and the tailstock. The employee's left index finger was medically amputated.

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