# Amputations at Viking Fabrication Services
> OSHA SIR `2022098003` · 9/9/2022 · KYLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Viking Fabrication Services
- **Location:** 19200 Marketplace Avenue, KYLE, TEXAS, 78640
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

After cutting pipe with a cold saw, an employee was leaning over the saw to roll the pipe onto a pipe table with his left hand. The pneumatic pipe clamp activated and caught the tip of his left ring finger, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation and the removal of the nail.

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