# Amputations involving bone loss at Viking Fabrication Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054087` · 5/9/2024 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping, stamping machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** Viking Fabrication Services LLC
- **Location:** 12360 E 46th Ave Suite 400, DENVER, COLORADO, 80239
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pipe groover machine to roll a groove at the end of a 10-foot-long steel pipe. Their gloved left index finger was caught between the pipe and the adjustable pipe guard, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation through the distal phalanx.

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