Incident date: 2025-05-22
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was tripping tubing when the tongs became stuck on the tubing. The employee was rocking the tongs up and down to remove them from the tubing. The handle he was holding onto landed on top of the tubing stump and crushed his right middle finger. About 1/4" of the fingertip was amputated without loss of bone.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Rig tongs, power tongs
code_nature: title: Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high