# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at ISCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025055057` · 5/28/2025 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stationary saws  band
- **Secondary source:** Cleaning handtools  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** ISCO INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 5610 Almeda-Genoa Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77048
- **NAICS:** 326191
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a 7-foot pipe using a band saw. He went to wipe moisture off the pipe with a rag and the rag became entangled in the moving saw blade, pulling his right hand into the blade. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the fourth distal phalanx and third digit.

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