# Amputations at QES Directional Drilling
> OSHA SIR `20171111228` · 11/23/2017 · MIDLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** QES Directional Drilling
- **Location:** Patterson 255-Parsley Energy-Sabastion 19 30A 4401H, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79706
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to loosen a tool with a wrench when his finger was caught between the wrench and the object he was loosening, resulting in an amputation.

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