# Amputations at G.W. Wireline, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181112145` · 11/27/2018 · GODLEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** G.W. Wireline, Inc.
- **Location:** Brown 1-H Well Head, GODLEY, TEXAS, 76044
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Wire rope was coming out of the hole of a wellhead, being wound onto a counterwheel. As an employee tried to adjust the drum speed, the retracting wire caught his left ring finger. He suffered a partial amputation of the fingertip.

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