# Amputations at Cactus Drilling Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076248` · 7/7/2017 · WEATHERFORD, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Cactus Drilling Company LLC
- **Location:** Hamar 3H-17, WEATHERFORD, OKLAHOMA, 73096
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to remove a drill pipe from a hole. His right hand was on the stand of drill pipe while an iron roughneck operator retracted the equipment so it could be positioned out of the way. The iron roughneck operator swung the piece of equipment and struck the employee's right ring fingertip, amputating it.

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