# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at New Jersey Natural Gas Company
> OSHA SIR `2025076663` · 7/10/2025 · MANALAPAN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Threading, tapping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Trucks  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** New Jersey Natural Gas Company
- **Location:** 15 Kilmer Drive, MANALAPAN, NEW JERSEY, 07726
- **NAICS:** 221210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pipe threading machine to thread a 2-inch diameter gas pipe during the rebuilding of a gas meter. The pipe was in a vise mounted on the back of the crew truck. A few pieces of metal chips or shavings caused the threading machine to jam. The employee started to back the pipe up, but it jammed in that direction as well. While reaching to pull the handle back up into place to try and start again, the machine rotated about an inch and pinched his middle fingertip against the edge of the truck s back step. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated without loss of bone.

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