# Amputations at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2016043298` · 4/20/2016 · STANTON, TEXAS
## 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
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** Well Fuller A#1, STANTON, TEXAS, 79782
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a workover rig. While the crew was running pipe in the bore hole, the employee's hand was caught between two strands of pipe. The distal phalanges of the employee's right-hand middle finger was crushed and partially amputated.

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