# Amputations at Alcott, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043537` · 4/12/2018 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
## Employer
- **Name:** Alcott, Inc.
- **Location:** I-45 Frontage Rd. and FM 1488 near 14900 I-45 S, CONROE, TEXAS, 77384
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While installing a sewer line using the horizontal directional drilling method, an employee was helping to add a drill stem to the tail string when his hand got too close to the nylon sling and the drill pipe and was crushed between the two. His right hand was amputated.

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