# Amputations at Advanced Stimulation Technologies, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023054221` · 5/10/2023 · PENWELL, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal pipes, tubing
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Stimulation Technologies, Inc
- **Location:** Frac location, PENWELL, TEXAS, 79776
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a co-worker were loading a 4-foot-tall piece of high-pressure iron pipe into a line truck. When the employee was setting down the pipe, his right middle finger was caught between the hammer union wing and another piece of high-pressure iron pipe, resulting in a finger amputation.

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