Incident date: 2018-10-14
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was operating an iron roughneck while moving drill pipes when a pipe struck his fingers against the iron roughneck's control box, resulting in a partial amputation of the left ring fingertip. The employee's hand was outside the equipment at the time of the incident.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high