# Amputations at Rockford Pipeline Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017010853` · 1/27/2017 · MASCOTTE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Chains, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Rockford Pipeline Corporation
- **Location:** Roy Rd. and Access Rd. 11, MASCOTTE, FLORIDA, 34753
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lining up pipes to be connected when the clamp that holds the pipes together broke and the employee's left index finger was caught in the lifting chains amputating it at the first knuckle.

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