← OSHA severe injury reports
Amputations involving bone loss
1 hospitalization · 2025089751 · 8/25/2025 · Southern Connections and Services
Severity
- Hospitalized
- 1
- Amputation
- 0
- Loss of eye
- 0
- Body part
- Wrist(s)
- Nature of injury
- Amputations involving bone loss
Cause
- Event
- Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- Source
- Rig tongs, power tongs
- Secondary source
- Transmissions, gears
Employer
- Name
- Southern Connections and Services
- Location
- 5710 farm to market 715, MIDLAND, TEXAS, 79703
- NAICS
- 541618
- Jurisdiction
- 1
Narrative
An employee was fixing hydraulic tongs when the tong gears amputated their left hand, requiring surgery.
Source
- Authoritative
- OSHA Severe Injury Reports
- Machine
- JSON-LD · Markdown