# Amputations at Turner Industries Group, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201211445` · 12/7/2020 · VILLE PLATTE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Clamps, couplings
- **Secondary source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Turner Industries Group, LLC
- **Location:** 2066 Cabot Road, VILLE PLATTE, LOUISIANA, 70586
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While two employees were preparing a 40-inch pipe support for replacement, one of the clamps holding the pipe rotated, crushing an employee's fingers between the clamp and the pipe. The employee suffered a crushed right hand, and his right middle fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

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