# Amputations at Western Extrusions Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022109243` · 10/21/2022 · CARROLLTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Western Extrusions Corporation
- **Location:** 1725 SANDY LAKE ROAD, CARROLLTON, TEXAS, 75006
- **NAICS:** 331316
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a saw operator cut scrap aluminum by pushing aluminum profiles along a roller table into a saw. Starting the saw also activated a clamp to hold the material to be cut; the clamp forced the material down onto the employee's hand, which was pinned between the material and the table. He suffered a partial amputation to the left ring fingertip.

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