# Amputations at MSD Performance
> OSHA SIR `2022053767` · 5/2/2022 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** MSD Performance
- **Location:** 1350 Pullman Dr., EL PASO, TEXAS, 79936
- **NAICS:** 336320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been operating a pneumatic cutting machine. She was trying to unjam the machine when the cutting blade amputated her right index fingertip.

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