Incident date: 2019-03-22
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was removing slack from a sand line when the downhole tool hung up on a pipe scale. The tool slipped past the scale, creating tension on the line around the sand line drum. The employee's fingers were pinched between the line and the drum; his right thumb and index finger were amputated.

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), n.e.c.
severity: high