# Amputations at Rig Runner
> OSHA SIR `2023087269` · 8/10/2023 · COTULLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Rig Runner
- **Location:** Patterson Drilling Rig 273, COTULLA, TEXAS, 78014
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a vee-door post on a drill rig when the vee-door post got stuck. The employee went to clear debris and the post came down amputating the distal phalanx of their right middle finger.

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