# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Virtue Oilfield Rentals, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025054846` · 5/22/2025 · FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Rig tongs, power tongs
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Virtue Oilfield Rentals, LLC
- **Location:** 35.321743 -94.433491, FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, 72901
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tripping tubing when the tongs became stuck on the tubing. The employee was rocking the tongs up and down to remove them from the tubing. The handle he was holding onto landed on top of the tubing stump and crushed his right middle finger. About 1/4" of the fingertip was amputated without loss of bone.

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