# Amputations at Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023043375` · 4/15/2023 · MARSHALL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Patterson-UTI Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Rig 561, MARSHALL, TEXAS, 75670
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with latching the elevators around the drill pipe when their right thumb was pinched between the elevator horn and the drill pipe and amputated.

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