Incident date: 2024-11-11
NAICS industry code: 213112

Two employees were performing routine maintenance on a mud pump. The injured employee was holding a plunger cap in place when the second employee dropped the plunger cap and the injured employee's right middle fingertip was caught between the plunger cap and the pump. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the right middle fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object dropped by person
code_source: title: Parts and materials  unspecified
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high