# Amputations at Bison Drilling & Field Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017098662` · 9/9/2017 · BIG SPRING, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Bison Drilling & Field Services LLC
- **Location:** Hamlin #19-8, BIG SPRING, TEXAS, 79720
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was nippling up a blowout preventer at a drill site when the employee's hand was caught between a blind ram and 4-inch gauge sealer valve, crushing the right pinky finger. The employee's pinky finger was amputated.

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