# Amputations at American Cast Iron Pipe Company
> OSHA SIR `2022065575` · 6/27/2022 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Dies, molds, patterns
- **Secondary source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Cast Iron Pipe Company
- **Location:** 1501 31st Avenue North, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35207
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attending a pipe jack station where the edges of pipes are straightened with a mold and die. The employee was lowering and moving in a pipe when the die of the pipe jack hit the pipe, fell off, and hit the employee's left hand. The employee's left ring finger was crushed between the pipe and die, resulting in an amputation to the first knuckle.

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