# Amputations at Westx Packaging Company
> OSHA SIR `2023010537` · 1/18/2023 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Westx Packaging Company
- **Location:** 508 Lubbock Business Park Blvd, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79403
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning rollers when their glove became caught and pulled into the rollers. They sustained damaged fingers and a partial amputation of the little finger.

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