# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Wastequip Manufacturing Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054577` · 5/24/2024 · TYLER, 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:** Material handling and warehousing machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Wastequip Manufacturing Company, LLC
- **Location:** 8521 FM 850 Charlotte, TYLER, TEXAS, 75705
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a metal skid onto a skid flipper and the skid was not lined up with the center of the clamps. The employee went to move it into position with a rigging bar when the skid was pushed from the back. The employee's right index finger was caught between the skid and the clamp of the skid flipper and was partially amputated.

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