# Amputations at Blue Line Drilling Co
> OSHA SIR `2016021725` · 2/25/2016 · EDEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Towers, poles, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Structures, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Blue Line Drilling Co
- **Location:** County Road 2019, EDEN, TEXAS, 76837
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tightening a safety stand to a pole when the pole shifted, causing the safety stand to move and catch the employee's fingertip between the stand and pole. The fingertip was amputated.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*