# Amputations at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `20191112143` · 11/22/2019 · TILDEN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** Edna Gibbons Henry #18, TILDEN, TEXAS, 78072
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding an apparatus designed to help pull a piece of equipment when his thumb was caught and crushed. The employee sustained an amputation to the nailbed of the left thumb.

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