Incident date: 2017-12-22
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was loading a pig into a pig launcher and closing the end hatch on a vertical pipe. The hinged pig launcher hatch began to fall and the employee attempted to catch it with his right hand, which was crushed between the pipe flange and hatch. He suffered soft tissue damage to his right middle and ring fingers, requiring hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate