# Amputations at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company
> OSHA SIR `2020087590` · 8/11/2020 · WILDWOOD, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company
- **Location:** 4149 CR 124A, WILDWOOD, FLORIDA, 34785
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a defective piece of pipe from a bundle of 40 to 60 pipes about 20 feet long and was mounted on a metal cart. When the defective pipe came loose, it pushed back, pinching the employee's right ring finger against the cart. The employee sustained a laceration that resulted in surgical amputation of the fingertip.

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