# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Vibration Mountings and Controls, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087033` · 8/2/2024 · 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:** Stationary drills, milling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Vibration Mountings and Controls, Inc.
- **Location:** 11930 Brittmoore Park Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77041
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was drilling compression plates and clearing scrap metal when his glove was caught and pulled into the drill bit. The employee sustained the amputation of three fingertips.

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