Incident date: 2019-04-30
NAICS industry code: 213111

The injured employee was working on the catwalk pedestal of an oil and gas drilling rig. While lifting a single joint of drill pipe, it fell out of the elevator and came down on the injured employee's left hand which was on the handrail. The employee sustained lacerations, fractures and nerve damage to the left hand.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Hand(s), unspecified
severity: moderate