# Amputations at Nabors Drilling Company
> OSHA SIR `2017066065` · 6/30/2017 · ORLA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Nabors Drilling Company
- **Location:** 7 miles east of Orla then you see a rig, ORLA, TEXAS, 79770
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to install a rotating head when his right thumb was caught and amputated between the rotating head and a drill pipe.

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