Incident date: 2022-09-11
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee had climbed the derrick of a workover rig to cut a rope that was caught in the tubing board. When the tubing board fell and released, it bounced the rig and the employee fell. He caught himself on a section of the derrick frame about 10 to 15 feet below, stopping his fall but suffering a spinal injury at the neck, internal bleeding, lacerations, and contusions.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, unspecified
severity: moderate