# Amputations at Unit Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `20201110809` · 11/14/2020 · ANDREWS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Unit Drilling Company
- **Location:** Lease UL#1933 E1307DN, Martin County, ANDREWS, TEXAS, 79714
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing a blowout preventer. One employee's hand was caught between the actuator assembly cage and the top drive. His right index finger was crushed and later amputated.

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