# Amputations at Scientific Drilling
> OSHA SIR `2015086248` · 8/29/2015 · WATONGA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Scientific Drilling
- **Location:** Well Site, WATONGA, OKLAHOMA, 73772
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on an oil rig attempting to place a pulser into the drilling hole. A metal cable on the hula band being used to guide the pulser into the hole caught his thumb and amputated it at the first joint.

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