# Amputations at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2019055315` · 5/27/2019 · DECATUR, 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:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** Oil Well Site near Decatur Texas, DECATUR, TEXAS, 76234
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While conducting fracking operations, an employee was digging out sand from the auger to a blender when the auger released and struck the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a laceration and amputation of the fingertip.

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