Incident date: 2017-07-27
NAICS industry code: 238910

An employee was asked to hold a wrench that was attached with a rope to a rod. The employee was retrieving the rod from the ground while the jaw on the drill rig was turning and the employee's left lower arm got caught between the wrench and the drill rig jaw. He was hospitalized for injuries to his lower left arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Forearm(s)
severity: moderate