# Amputations at Mid-Central Energy Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171110656` · 11/5/2017 · KERMIT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Turning handtools-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mid-Central Energy Services, LLC
- **Location:** State Rudd Draw 26-25 2H, KERMIT, TEXAS, 79745
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were performing pressure services, hydrostatic testing on a blowout preventer. When one of the employees attempted to loosen bolts on the wellhead spool, the hydraulic torque hammer wrench and wellhead spool struck the employee s left hand, partially amputating the index finger.

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