# Amputations at Zekelman Industries
> OSHA SIR `2023021646` · 2/21/2023 · FARRELL, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Zekelman Industries
- **Location:** 100 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd., FARRELL, PENNSYLVANIA, 16121
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching for a pipe that was extruded from a die block. The pipe recoiled back toward the die block, causing the employee's finger to become pinched and amputated.

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