Incident date: 2018-10-18
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was laying down tubing. He reached to unlatch the tubing elevator with his right hand and his right index finger was caught between the joint of the elevator and the joint of the tubing. His finger was amputated just above the second knuckle, and he was hospitalized.

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