# Amputations at Ensign United States Drilling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099089` · 9/3/2018 · BRIGHTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Ensign United States Drilling, Inc.
- **Location:** 16500 East 132nd Avenue, BRIGHTON, COLORADO, 80601
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A rig hand was guiding pipe to a racking system on a rig floor to rack back the pipe. He slipped and fell on the rig floor. As he fell, the 90-foot drilling pipe was stabbed into the floor of the rig, pinching his finger against the floor. His finger was partially amputated.

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