Incident date: 2022-07-20
NAICS industry code: 213111

An employee was holding a tong that was gripping a string of pipe that was within a mouse hole on a drilling rig. The crew was trying to remove 2 of the 3 sections of pipe from a string. On the third attempt to attach a pipe spinner unit, the pipe spinner unit impacted the employee's left thumb. The thumb was broken and lacerated.

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: Fractures
code_body: title: Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
severity: moderate