# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Creek Pipe Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021727` · 2/25/2024 · ORLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Creek Pipe Company LLC
- **Location:** TPWR, ORLA, TEXAS, 79770
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to lift and hold a piece of 20" HDPE piping that was inserted into a fusion machine. The machine started and the employee's left index finger was caught between the roller and pipe causing a fingertip amputation.

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