# Amputations at Oil States Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `20181010596` · 10/15/2018 · WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Oil States Energy Services
- **Location:** 301 26th Street East, WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58801
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a stay rod onto the body of an isolation tool when his left thumb was crushed between the tool and the stay rod, resulting in an amputation to his thumb.

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