# Amputations at Caldwell Tanks, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022087228` · 8/15/2022 · WHEELER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Caldwell Tanks, Inc.
- **Location:** 509 Comanche St., WHEELER, TEXAS, 79096
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting an 8-inch-diameter overflow pipe in a tank shaft. His left little finger was pinched between the pipe he was lowering and the fixed pipe, and was amputated at the first knuckle.

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