# Amputations at TG Utility Company
> OSHA SIR `2015107975` · 10/25/2015 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched between two stationary objects
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Bars, rods, reinforcing bar (rebar)
## Employer
- **Name:** TG Utility Company
- **Location:** 925 Twin Springs Road, SE, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a metal flange on a 20-inch pipe and pinched a finger between the pipe and the metal flange while retrieving a nut that dropped between the pipe and flange. The right index fingertip was amputated.

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