# Amputations at Texas Pipe Works Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020011026` · 1/31/2020 · NAVASOTA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Texas Pipe Works Inc
- **Location:** 9444 Industrial Drive, NAVASOTA, TEXAS, 77868
- **NAICS:** 333249
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a 6-foot pipe from a machine when his hand went between the machine turret and the pipe, smashing his right ring finger and resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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