Incident date: 2024-09-23
NAICS industry code: 236220

An employee attempted to open an engine compartment door on a drill rig to start the master cylinder before transporting the rig via a lowboy trailer. In order to access the compartment door he had to stand on the bottom track. As he pulled the latch, he lost his balance and stepped backward. His right hand fingers were caught in the handle, resulting in fractures of his index and ring fingers and a partial amputation of the middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in non-running object
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drill apparatus
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high