Incident date: 2022-11-07
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was assisting with rigging up a derrick. He was at the back end of the rig when he grabbed a bar with his right hand. As the rig was going up, his right hand went under the tail screw, which crushed his little finger, resulting in amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
severity: high