# Amputations at Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109783` · 10/14/2020 · PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Ingalls Shipbuilding Inc.
- **Location:** 1000 Jerry St. Pe Hwy, PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI, 39568
- **NAICS:** 336611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a piece of copper alloy pipe he had just cut and cleaned. When the employee placed the pipe section on a stationary conveyor it bounced up and pinched his left ring finger against the frame, amputating the finger.

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