# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Blue Origin Texas LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2024098697` · 9/18/2024 · VAN HORN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Sanding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Origin Texas LLC.
- **Location:** 35961 State Highway 54, VAN HORN, TEXAS, 79855
- **NAICS:** 336414
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was deburring a metal piece using a disc sander when their right thumb contacted the sanding surface, resulting in a partial traumatic metacarpophalangeal amputation.

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