# Amputations at Osage Piping & Fabricating, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111110` · 11/29/2016 · HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Sheet metal
- **Secondary source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Osage Piping & Fabricating, Inc.
- **Location:** 301 South Cameron Street, HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17101
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was de-burring a piece of sheet metal with a belt sander when either the belt sander pulled the sheet metal or the sheet metal slipped and amputated the top of the employee's right thumb from the knuckle to the nail.

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