Incident date: 2015-08-29
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was working on an oil rig attempting to place a pulser into the drilling hole. A metal cable on the hula band being used to guide the pulser into the hole caught his thumb and amputated it at the first joint.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Entangled in other object or equipment
code_source: title: Wire, cables-nonelectrical
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high