# Amputations at U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company
> OSHA SIR `2020098769` · 9/15/2020 · BESSEMER, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Foot (feet), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Beams-unattached metal
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company
- **Location:** 2023 SAINT LOUIS AVENUE, BESSEMER, ALABAMA, 35020
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving two steel pipes from one run to another run using a rail car pipe truck. While transferring pipe, the east (right side) pipe struck a steel I-beam causing the pipe to jump the pipe truck retainer lip and the spigot end of the pipe struck the employee's foot. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the foot.

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