# Amputations at Piper Aircraft, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032391` · 3/16/2022 · VERO BEACH, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Piper Aircraft, Inc.
- **Location:** 2926 Piper Drive, VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, 32960
- **NAICS:** 336411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was forming a part on a forming machine. He was trying to adjust an aluminum shim within the machine's gripper jaws when they crushed his left little fingertip, causing a partial amputation.

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