# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Space Exploration Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2024043107` · 4/9/2024 · BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Cabinets, cases, dressers
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Space Exploration Technologies
- **Location:** 1 Rocket Road, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, 78521
- **NAICS:** 927110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing the doors to an industrial storage cabinet when their right index fingertip was pinched in the attached cabinet-locking mechanism, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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