# Amputations at Miller Environmental Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010922` · 1/28/2018 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Miller Environmental Services, LLC
- **Location:** HoffB4H Lease, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78410
- **NAICS:** 562112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was vacuuming sand from the rig sand box when a gas buster that was chained open came down and pinched the end of the employee's left index finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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