# Amputations at Packless Industries
> OSHA SIR `2022032345` · 3/15/2022 · WACO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Packless Industries
- **Location:** 8401 Imperial Dr., WACO, TEXAS, 76712
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine. He reached to move a copper tube, and the tube pinched his left index finger against the wall. His finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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