Incident date: 2025-08-03
NAICS industry code: 333132

A crew was tripping out of the hole with an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in the process of swapping tubing tong heads to break down the ESP. An employee's left arm was caught and pinched by the tubing tongs. The employee sustained three lacerations and a fracture to the arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
code_source: title: Rig tongs, power tongs
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s)  unspecified
severity: moderate