# Amputations involving bone loss at General Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2025032770` · 3/24/2025 · SEAGOVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** General Technologies
- **Location:** 704 W. Simonds Road, SEAGOVILLE, TEXAS, 75159
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading bar stock into a screw machine when a rag was caught in the machine's spindle and twisted around the employee's right little finger. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip at the first knuckle.

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