# Amputations at QES Pressure Pumping, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019088612` · 8/20/2019 · CANTON, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** QES Pressure Pumping, LLC
- **Location:** Comanche Wellsite, CANTON, OKLAHOMA, 73724
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just replaced a rubber O-ring on a manifold and was trying to put the bull plug back on the missile when it slipped off and took the employee's hand down, striking it against the flat metal plate below. As a result, the employee suffered a partial fingertip amputation.

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