# Amputations at Basic Energy Services
> OSHA SIR `2016076401` · 7/15/2016 · MORAN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural
- **Secondary source:** Metal pipes, tubing
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic Energy Services
- **Location:** South Green #595 Midville Energy, MORAN, TEXAS, 76464
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While conducting well servicing operations, a rig crew was changing out swab cups and preparing to go back into the hole (oil well), when an employee had his hand pinched between a bar and the tubing resulting in the amputation of the employee's pinky finger.

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