Incident date: 2015-04-11
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was performing cementing operations on a drilling rig. While using an air hoist to hoist a cement plug over a pipe, his thumb got caught between the "wing" of the plug and the plug itself. He sustained an amputation to the left-hand thumb up to the knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Caps, lids, covers, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high