# Amputations at Birchstone Management, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022032305` · 3/14/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Birchstone Management, LLC
- **Location:** 225 Portwall Suite 300, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77029
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing the bearings on the roller of a sorter machine. The roller shifted, and the employee's right middle fingertip was caught in the chain and sprocket. The fingertip was amputated.

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