Incident date: 2025-07-08
NAICS industry code: 541620

An employee was assisting the operator of a soil sampling rig to collect soil samples. He went to remove soil sampling tooling and the energized equipment cycled. His right index fingertip was amputated including the fingernail.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drill apparatus
code_nature: title: Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
code_body: title: Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
severity: high