# Amputations at Ditch Witch
> OSHA SIR `2019099801` · 9/19/2019 · PERRY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Ditch Witch
- **Location:** 1959 W. Fir Ave, PERRY, OKLAHOMA, 73077
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to free a pipe on a horizontal directional drill when the pipe shifted, catching the employee's finger between the drill pipe and the frame of the unit and resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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