# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at KMK Fabrication, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024098247` · 9/5/2024 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Scrap metal
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** KMK Fabrication, Inc.
- **Location:** 13510 Ralph Culver Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77086
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bundling scrap metal. His thumb was crushed and partially amputated as scrap steel was set down on dunnage.

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