# Amputations at ABJ Fire Protection
> OSHA SIR `2022043571` · 4/26/2022 · LOCKPORT, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Threading and tapping machines
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** ABJ Fire Protection
- **Location:** Rochester Amazon project, LOCKPORT, NEW YORK, 14094
- **NAICS:** 922160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was about to use a pipe threading machine to cut and thread 1.5-inch pipe and thread on fittings. The fitting he was installing was a 1.5-inch tee onto the pipe he had just cut and threaded; he was using the machine's motor to turn the pipe as he held the fitting/tee using a 14-inch pipe wrench. After the tee had been started, the machine turned on and the pipe began to rotate. The pipe wrench contacted the machine's threading assembly, which stopped the rotation; the employee's left index fingertip was caught, crushed, and amputated between the wrench and the carriage assembly.

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