# Amputations at PIPELIFE JET STREAM INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016109788` · 10/18/2016 · SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** PIPELIFE JET STREAM INC.
- **Location:** 1700 South Lincoln Street, SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 72761
- **NAICS:** 332996
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a pipe in a grinder machine. As the pipe loosened, the door to the grinder slammed shut on his right ring fingertip, amputating it from the tip to the middle of the fingernail.

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