# Amputations at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171110579` · 11/2/2017 · CALDWELL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Rig 279, CALDWELL, TEXAS, 77836
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unwrapping a wire rope from a spool when the wire rope slipped and pinched his left middle fingertip between the rope and spool. His fingertip was amputated.

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