Incident date: 2024-10-30
NAICS industry code: 213112

Employees were tripping pipe out of a well. The injured employee was using the power tongs to loosen the pipe connection. After flipping the cover, the injured employee's fingers were caught in a pinch point on the tongs resulting in amputations to their left middle and ring fingers.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Rig tongs, power tongs
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high