# Amputations at East Texas Lee Container, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022119709` · 11/4/2022 · NACOGDOCHES, 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** East Texas Lee Container, LLC
- **Location:** 1413 S. University, NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS, 75961
- **NAICS:** 424130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the tooling of a plastic molding machine. The molding machine closed on his left hand, resulting in the amputation of the left index and middle fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

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