# Amputations at Sanderson Pipe Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018088181` · 8/9/2018 · PITTSBURG, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Sanderson Pipe Corporation
- **Location:** 1800 Atkinson Ave, PITTSBURG, KANSAS, 66762
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the ingredients scale in the blending facility when an air operated slide gate activated and severed the employee's hand.

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