# Amputations at GEO GROUP, SOUTH TEXAS ICE PROCESSING CENTER
> OSHA SIR `20221210610` · 12/6/2022 · PEARSALL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** GEO GROUP, SOUTH TEXAS ICE PROCESSING CENTER
- **Location:** 566 Veterans Drive, PEARSALL, TEXAS, 78061
- **NAICS:** 922140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a sewer lift station. An electric winch was being used to lift the pump motor out of the lift station. The winch cable became kinked. As the employee was working to untangle the cable, his right little finger was pinched by the cable and pulley section of the winch resulting in a partial amputation.

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