Incident date: 2021-03-28
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was attempting to install a cap (a two-part assembly) onto a casing head. The cap was stuck, and as the employee tried to manually thread it onto the casing head, its upper part came down and caught the employee's left thumb. The employee suffered an amputation to the thumb and was hospitalized for surgery.

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), unspecified
severity: high