Update: White House staff member may have lost two fingers Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: The Washington Post has updated its story to remove its report that a man at the White House suffered "life-threatening injuries." The White House told NBC News that the man was a staff member who suffered minor injuries to his hand. Updated at 3:55 p.m. ET: An administration official tells NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker that the original report that a man was rushed to the hospital with "life-threatening injuries" was blown out of proportion. "There was a minor injury with a member of the residence staff - an ambulance was called out of an abundance of caution," the official said. Updated at 3:41 p.m. ET: Politico reports that the man taken to Washington Hospital Center is a member of the White House household staff who suffered an on-the-job injury. The report couldn't immediately be reconciled with an earlier report by The Washington Post quoting an emergency official as saying the man had "life-threatening" injuries. A hospital spokeswoman told msnbc.com she had no information on the incident. Updated at 3:36 p.m. ET: A spokeswoman for Washington Hospital Center tells msnbc.com she has no information on the Post report that an unidentified man at the White House was rushed to there after suffering a "life-threatening" injury. Original post: An unidentified man at the White House was rushed to a hospital after suffering a life-threatening hand injury, The Washington Post reported. Lon Walls, a D.C. Fire/EMS spokesman, told the Post the man had a "possible amputation of one or two fingers." The man's name and age were not released. Walls said he was taken to Washington Hospital Center with injuries that were classified as life-threatening, the newspaper reported.