# Amputations at Mueller Copper Tube Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017021468` · 2/14/2017 · FULTON, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mueller Copper Tube Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Mueller Rd., FULTON, MISSISSIPPI, 38843
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's left thumb was caught between a hydraulic clamp and the copper tube that was in the clamp. The thumb was surgically amputated at the last knuckle.

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