Incident date: 2018-12-15
NAICS industry code: 213112

An employee was laying down tubing and guiding the drill pipe when it got hung up and jerked causing the employee to fall through an unguarded V-door from the workover rig floor to a hydraulic catwalk. The employee suffered a fractured skull.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
code_source: title: Oil drilling rigs and machinery
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Skull
severity: moderate