# Amputations at Russo Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019055372` · 5/29/2019 · HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Russo Corporation
- **Location:** Intersection of Church St NW & Pegram St NW, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, 35801
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a drill rig operator and was cleaning out a pinhole when the pin was removed, causing the drill rig bar to raise and pin the employee's finger between the pinhole and the rig bar. The employee's left index finger was completely amputated at the distal phalanx joint.

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