Incident date: 2024-08-21
NAICS industry code: 237110

An employee was lowering himself to ground level from a drill rig platform when his left middle fingertip was pinched between the jaw of a hydraulic wrench and a section of the drill rig as the wrench was opened, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
code_source: title: Wrenches, ratchets
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high