# Amputations at Pipelife Jet Stream, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023065583` · 6/23/2023 · SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Mining and drilling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pipelife Jet Stream, Inc.
- **Location:** 1700 S Lincoln Street, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 72761
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the pipe machine while waiting for a PVC pipe to come out of another machine. The pipe machine clamped down on his right index finger and crushed it, resulting in a partial amputation.

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