# Amputations involving bone loss at Rigid Global Buildings LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054465` · 5/21/2024 · HOUSTON, 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:** Welding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Rigid Global Buildings LLC
- **Location:** 18933 Aldine Westfield, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77073
- **NAICS:** 332311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a flange line machine and pushing a flange aside using the material holder vises when the holders came down and pinched his right index finger between the holder and the material. He sustained an amputation of the finger.

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