Incident date: 2016-10-20
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was on the tubing platform of a production rig placing tubes in the elevators when his safety line became snagged by the tubing being elevated. The employee was lifted off of the platform until his line separated, then he fell onto the platform. The employee sustained back and neck injuries and five broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate