Incident date: 2025-07-22
NAICS industry code: 237120

At about 4:20 a.m. on July 22, 2025, an employee of Blackeagle Energy Services was removing masking tape from a 24-inch, 450-pound flange on a pipe rack. Dunnage supporting the flange failed and it fell, crushing the employee's left hand against the rack. The employee suffered a partially severed middle finger, crushed bones, and lacerations/tendon damage to the ring finger. The employee was hospitalized, and the middle finger was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
code_source: title: Pipe fittings, collars
code_nature: title: Amputations involving bone loss
code_body: title: Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
severity: high