# Amputations at Improved Piping Products Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021097944` · 9/15/2021 · SAN ANTONIO, 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
## Employer
- **Name:** Improved Piping Products Inc.
- **Location:** 5010 Space Center Dr., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 78218
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a hydraulic clamp. His right hand was caught in a pinch point created by the piston, and the ring fingertip was amputated.

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