# Amputations at Gulf South Energy Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20221110345` · 11/27/2022 · SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
## 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:** Gulf South Energy Services, LLC
- **Location:** 1843 Grimmet Dr. (Out on oil site), SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, 71107
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the bearings on a measuring head wheel for a wireline unit. The new bearings were placed and as the wheel was lowered back into the housing, the wheel pinched the tip of the employee's finger, resulting in a left middle fingertip amputation.

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