Incident date: 2015-07-02
NAICS industry code: 213112

Employees were making up float shoes on the first joint of a casing job. The pipe came loose, swung, and caught one of the employees between the manual back-up tong and the back-up snub line.  The employee was hospitalized and treated for injuries to the chest and colon area.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Struck by dislodged flying object, particle
code_source: title: Metal pipes, tubing
code_nature: title: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate