Incident date: 2023-03-22
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was nippling up the stripping of a stripper head. The bottom section of the stripper head came unthreaded from the top section and fell 5 feet, crushing the employee's left thumb against the blowout preventer bolts. The thumb was broken.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
code_source: title: Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate