# Amputations at LB Foster Coated Products
> OSHA SIR `2015052567` · 5/4/2015 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** LB Foster Coated Products
- **Location:** 3135 Daniel Payne Drive, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35214
- **NAICS:** 332812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a vacuum in the cleaning line when he pressed the wrong button and allowed a pipe to roll past his station. He and a coworker tried to move it back up the line, unaware that another pipe was rolling forward. The employee's right-hand pinky finger got pinched between the two pipes and was later surgically amputated.

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