# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Tyler Pipe Company
> OSHA SIR `2025043556` · 4/16/2025 · TYLER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Sandblasting machinery
- **Secondary source:** Augers  except conveyor
## Employer
- **Name:** Tyler Pipe Company
- **Location:** 11910 County Road 492, TYLER, TEXAS, 75703
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was shot blasting cast iron fittings. He was unjamming the blast machine and when the auger was freed it amputated his right middle fingertip.

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