# Amputations involving bone loss at STEP Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2025065434` · 6/7/2025 · FLORESVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Wellhead valves
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** STEP Energy Services
- **Location:** 572 Rancho Grande, FLORESVILLE, TEXAS, 78114
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing center tac-off stripper rings on a stuffing box. The employee was holding the brass fitting in place when the inspection window on the stuffing box came down and caught his right hand. Four fingers were amputated to the palm of the hand.

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