# Amputations at Byrd Oilfield Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021075781` · 7/14/2021 · STANTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Byrd Oilfield Services, LLC
- **Location:** Pioneer 74, STANTON, TEXAS, 79782
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were creating a joint in casing. When the employees reversed out the tongs, the tension in the casing pushed the tongs toward the injured employee. The injured employee's finger was pinched between the casing safety door and the tongs and their fingertip was amputated.

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