Incident date: 2023-03-16
NAICS industry code: 237990

An employee was helping to stabilize drilling equipment when their fingers were crushed between the auger and auger guide on the drilling rig. The employee sustained crush injuries to the left middle and ring fingers that resulted in partial amputations and hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: high