# Amputations at Alsay Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2023087052` · 8/3/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Alsay Incorporated
- **Location:** 4500 Will Clayton Parkway, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77032
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was taking pipe out of a well. He was holding backup tongs when the pipe unexpectedly rotated, catching his right ring finger between the slip handle and chain tong handle. The employee's finger was partially amputated at the fingernail.

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