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An employee was working to install a drive belt on a water pump. He was holding the belt on both sides of the pulley, working to route it over the top. As he pulled down with his right hand, the pulley rotated and the belt slid over it, pulling his left little finger between the pulley and the belt. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip as well as a fracture to the ring finger.

An employee was working to remove a stuck fish tool from a drill shoe. Their thumb was struck by a hammer, resulting in amputation.

An employee was trying to attach a hydraulic power unit trailer to a truck hitch. While he was aligning the trailer and working to lower its coupler onto the truck hitch, the trailer dropped onto his left ring finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip, involving loss of tissue.

An employee was working in a manlift, using a hydraulic torque wrench to tighten bolts on a frac stack. The wrench activated and caught his left middle finger against a crown nut, causing an amputation at the last knuckle.

An employee was rigging up a location. He was using an Allen wrench to free up rotation and start the drawworks engine manually. The engine rotated and his left little finger became caught between the Allen wrench and the engine. The employee sustained an amputation to his little finger and fractures to his wrist.

An employee was working to close a gate that had gotten stuck. He was pushing on the top rail when it started moving and his left little finger became crushed between the rollers and the top rail, resulting in an amputation below the bottom knuckle.

An employee's glove was caught in a rotating rod, breaking and degloving their right ring finger. During treatment, a small amount of bone was removed from the finger.

While bringing a torque tube and grabber box in to close the grabber door, an employee went to shift the torque tube with his right hand. When he reached up with his left hand, the grabber box slid down and partially amputated his left thumb.

On September 9, 2025, at 8:45 a.m., an employee's hand was on a suspended bundle of metal tubing when a tube shifted in mid-air. The employee's right index finger got pinched between the tubes, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was rigging chain slings to a centrifuge stand for a crane to lift it. Their right index finger became caught in the rigging, resulting in a partial amputation.

An employee was operating a torque wrench to tighten equipment when his right index finger got caught in a pinch point of the tool, resulting in a partial amputation without fracture.

An employee was performing winching operations on a flatbed when their left hand was pinched between a winch hook and a nylon bridle resulting in the amputation of his left index finger.

On August 20, 2025, at 8:00 a.m., two employees were removing a suction module on a mud pump. Three bolts were sheared off and the fourth bolt was frozen, making it difficult to remove the module. The employees used a 5-foot pry bar inserted in the bolt hole to free up the module while a forklift bumped and lifted the module using a two-part sling. When the forklift bumped the module, the module came free, causing the pry bar to jump and pinch the injured employee's left little finger against the pulsation dampener, which resulted in a partial fingertip amputation.

An employee was washing a band drill when the housing fell and landed on their left ring finger, resulting in amputation of the finger.

An employee was pulling and positioning the first joint of pipe (30-foot joint of 2-7/8 tubing) at the end of the pipe racks so that it could be lifted at a later time. The pipe was stacked three layers high. The pipe from top layer rolled and three joints of pipe fell at the opposite end of the pipe racks. The employee reached to stop the pipe from falling at the end where he was standing and his right little finger was crushed between the pipe and the pipe rack pin. The employee's finger was amputated.

An employee was cleaning a mixer. As he used a tool to move the rotor inside the mixer, the rotor pinched the top of his right ring finger against the mixer. The finger was partially amputated.

An employee was manually rolling an oilfield testing cap onto a pallet for storage. The cap tipped over and crushed his right middle finger against another, palletized test flange. The fingertip was medically amputated.

An employee was performing bolting activities with a wrench. The employee's left index finger was caught between the wrench and a flange, and the fingertip was partially amputated.

A 5.5-inch production casing was being rolled. An employee was loading it onto a hydraulic catwalk when their left little fingertip was crushed between casing and the casing roller ramp. The fingertip was amputated behind the nailbed.

An employee was running rods into the hole when his finger became caught between the rod and the rotator, resulting in an amputation of his middle fingertip.

An employee was changing out the heads on mechanically-operated tongs when the tongs shifted into a lower gear, causing the employee's left hand to be crushed. The employee sustained amputations to their left index, middle, and ring fingers.

At approximately 10:40 AM, on July 30, 2025, during operations on a rig at a well, the injured employee was in the derrick, working to pull back a joint of pipe. He encountered a shorter-than-standard pipe, which prevented him from securing his arm around it, so he grabbed the pipe by the collar with his left hand. The blocks were being lowered at the time. The bottom of the blocks contacted the top of the pipe while the employee's fingers were inside the collar. His middle and ring fingers were amputated and the index finger was partially amputated. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was working on a rig crew. They were positioned on the rig work floor, helping to connect tubing to a power swivel. While the employee was making a horizontal connection, their left hand was positioned on the winch line that was secured to the power swivel. As the swivel rotated, the winch line chain became tangled, pinching the employee's left little finger and resulting in an amputation.

During fluid end maintenance, an employee was sliding the seat puller (a hand tool), which was positioned on top of the fluid end, from hole 1 to hole 2. The seat puller fell into hole 2. At the time, the employee s right hand was resting on the fluid end, and their right middle fingertip was pinched between the fluid end and the seat puller. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

An employee was helping assemble a reciprocating process gas compressor. During the installation of the piston and rod assembly, his gloved left index fingertip was pinched between the piston and the cylinder liner. A piece of flesh at his fingertip was crushed and amputated, remaining in the glove.