# Amputations at Flexsteel
> OSHA SIR `2023076777` · 7/27/2023 · BAYTOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Flexsteel
- **Location:** 1221 Transport Drive, BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77523
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been monitoring the progression of pipe onto a reel. The employee was removing a section of chain that restrains an air plug (which is inserted into the flexible pipe as part of the process), when the chain became hung up on the rotating take-up reel. The employee was untangling the chain when they sustained an amputation to their right thumb tip.

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