# Amputations at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181010588` · 10/14/2018 · BIG LAKE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company, LLC
- **Location:** Rig 566, BIG LAKE, TEXAS, 76932
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an iron roughneck while moving drill pipes when a pipe struck his fingers against the iron roughneck's control box, resulting in a partial amputation of the left ring fingertip. The employee's hand was outside the equipment at the time of the incident.

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