# Amputations at Flare Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2022043603` · 4/26/2022 · BIG LAKE, 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:** Flare Energy Services
- **Location:** Prince 1H Well, BIG LAKE, TEXAS, 76932
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out the screen on a plug catcher. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the screen and the deck of the plug catcher. The fingertip was amputated at the tuft of the last phalanx.

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