# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Dodson Tye Machine Works, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024021887` · 2/22/2024 · HOMER, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Pumps  except oil well
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Dodson Tye Machine Works, Inc
- **Location:** Parish Rd 180 (Dutchtown Rd), HOMER, LOUISIANA, 71040
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clamping off a polish rod on a pumping unit so that the wrist pins could be removed, when the clamp slipped causing his fingers to be crushed between the carrier bar and the polish rod clamp. This resulted in a partial amputation of his right index finger.

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