# Amputations at Unit Drilling Co
> OSHA SIR `2020054074` · 5/1/2020 · MINCO, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Oil drilling rigs and machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Unit Drilling Co
- **Location:** Rig 327, Lease AR-JO 1H-31, MINCO, OKLAHOMA, 73059
- **NAICS:** 213111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An oil/gas well employee was pushing down on a liner washer tube with a pin. The pin slipped, and the employee's right thumb was caught and smashed between the piston and the liner. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the thumb.

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