Incident date: 2024-10-18
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was changing out the elements in the double-rotating head. The peg that was welded to the rig floor, where the double-rotating head was being stored, broke at the weld causing the metal rotating head to fall and strike the employee's left leg and fracture it.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by propelled, falling, or suspended object  unspecified
code_source: title: Drilling and extraction machinery  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate