# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at KWS Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
> OSHA SIR `2024087334` · 8/9/2024 · BURLESON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** KWS Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- **Location:** 3041 Conveyor Drive, BURLESON, TEXAS, 76028
- **NAICS:** 333922
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning welding debris from a steel part that was in a fixture. The part moved, cut through the employee's cut-resistant glove, and amputated their right middle fingertip.

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