Incident date: 2019-09-19
NAICS industry code: 811310

An employee was trying to free a pipe on a horizontal directional drill when the pipe shifted, catching the employee's finger between the drill pipe and the frame of the unit and resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
code_source: title: Drilling machines, drilling augers
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Fingertip(s)
severity: high