# Amputations at Earle M. Jorgensen Company
> OSHA SIR `2023042933` · 4/3/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drills-stationary
## Employer
- **Name:** Earle M. Jorgensen Company
- **Location:** 6201 Lumberdale Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77092
- **NAICS:** 423510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a drill into the spindle of a drill machine when his left index finger was pinched between the spindle and the oil splashguard, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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