# Amputations at Improved Piping Products
> OSHA SIR `2017099369` · 9/18/2017 · SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
- **Source:** Pipe fittings, collars
- **Secondary source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Improved Piping Products
- **Location:** 5040 Space Center Drive, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78218
- **NAICS:** 332919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had activated a vertical turret lathe when the table began rotating and the horizontal cutting tool moved toward an unsecured pipe fitting. When the cutting tool contacted the unsecured fitting, it caused the fitting to jump off the table and strike the employee's right hand, fracturing and lacerating the right thumb. Part of the employee's thumb had to be medically amputated.

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