# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Galindo & Boyd Houston, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024032046` · 3/5/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Hoists, lifts  overhead, cable
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Galindo & Boyd Houston, LLC
- **Location:** 2315 Navigation Blvd, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77003
- **NAICS:** 238140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing a shifting load that was being hoisted on a cable elevator when his gloved hand got caught in the wire rope, amputating his right little fingertip.

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