# Amputations at North American Pipe Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018065933` · 6/16/2018 · WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** North American Pipe Corporation
- **Location:** 3348 Industrial Drive, WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, 76306
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling a pipe out of a pipe cutting machine when the pipe fell on his finger. As he pulled his finger out, the end of the pipe amputated the pad of his right index finger.

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