# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Cascade Drilling L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2024087722` · 8/21/2024 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Wrenches, ratchets
- **Secondary source:** Drilling machines, drill apparatus
## Employer
- **Name:** Cascade Drilling L.P.
- **Location:** 9801 N. Reese Blvd, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79416
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering himself to ground level from a drill rig platform when his left middle fingertip was pinched between the jaw of a hydraulic wrench and a section of the drill rig as the wrench was opened, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip.

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