# Amputations involving bone loss at Lippert Components Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010454` · 1/16/2024 · BEEVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Lippert Components Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 1600 S St. Mary's Street, BEEVILLE, TEXAS, 78102
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bending a 46-inch piece of carbon steel tubing in a tubing bender when their left index finger was crushed by the die. The employee's finger was surgically amputated at the first knuckle.

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