# Amputations at Star Pipe Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023065837` · 6/30/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Star Pipe Products, LLC
- **Location:** 4018 Westhollow Parkway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77082
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing the lugs running through the lug and drill tap machine. A lug became jammed in the pusher area of the machine and the employee went to clear it when their right index fingertip was caught in the pusher and amputated.

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