# Amputations at American Piping Inspection
> OSHA SIR `20191112024` · 11/19/2019 · KILGORE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **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:** Jacks
## Employer
- **Name:** American Piping Inspection
- **Location:** 1008 Cox Drive, KILGORE, TEXAS, 75662
- **NAICS:** 541380
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up pipe. He set one end on a jack. As he was about to put the other end on another jack, the pipe fell off the first jack and his left middle and ring fingers were smashed between the second jack and the pipe. He suffered amputations to both fingers.

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