# Amputations involving bone loss at Southern Connections and Services
> OSHA SIR `2025089751` · 8/25/2025 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Wrist(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Rig tongs, power tongs
- **Secondary source:** Transmissions, gears
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Connections and Services
- **Location:** 5710 farm to market 715, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79703
- **NAICS:** 541618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing hydraulic tongs when the tong gears amputated their left hand, requiring surgery.

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