# Amputations at RDI Foundation Drilling
> OSHA SIR `2022010849` · 1/28/2022 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Mining and drilling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** RDI Foundation Drilling
- **Location:** 202 Timber Wilde Lane, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77024
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping with a kelly bar and dipping bucket. The employee's left hand was on the sleeve of the kelly bar, and the sleeve was raised about 3 inches above his hand. The kelly bar operator attempted to level the kelly bar to lower the head into the dipping bucket. The sleeve closed, crushing the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers. The employee's left middle and ring fingers were amputated.

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