# Amputations at Shawcor Pipeline Protection LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022076676` · 7/29/2022 · CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Lathes, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Sanders-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Shawcor Pipeline Protection LLC
- **Location:** 817 Shields Rd., CHANNELVIEW, TEXAS, 77530
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding a part on a lathe with sandpaper. The paper pulled his gloved right hand into the rotating shaft. He was hospitalized and his 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*