# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at General Shale Brick, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054587` · 5/15/2025 · SCHERTZ, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** General Shale Brick, Inc.
- **Location:** 21455 FM 2252, SCHERTZ, TEXAS, 78154
- **NAICS:** 327121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a slab line in a plant that produces 16" x 9" x 3" concrete slabs that weigh approximately 25-30 pounds. The employee went to adjust the chain and sprocket for the doubler that stacks the slabs two high, when their right middle finger was caught in the machine. The employee sustained a partial transphalangeal amputation of the finger.

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