# Amputations at TEC Well Service LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018065945` · 6/16/2018 · FORT STOCKTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** TEC Well Service LLC
- **Location:** Gunner 2223 #-H, FORT STOCKTON, TEXAS, 79735
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was grabbing a winch to make a pipe connection on the rig floor when his finger was crushed between the winch cable and the power swivel, partially amputating his pinky finger.

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