Incident date: 2022-06-17
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was using a tail rope to guide a stand of drill pipe into the mousehole from the derrick board. The tail rope became caught in the single joint elevators and tangled around the employee's lower right leg resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate