# Amputations at IPEC Equipment Services
> OSHA SIR `20181011019` · 10/25/2018 · HILLSBORO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** IPEC Equipment Services
- **Location:** American Crystal Sugar, HILLSBORO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58045
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reassembling pipe components after a valve replacement on a mud pump. A section of pipe crushed his finger against a pipe flange. The finger was surgically amputated.

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